distillation
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- noun
- /ˌdɪstəˈleɪʃən/
- Specialized
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- Essential oils are often obtained through the distillation of plant materials.
Examples
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Because of the limited amount of fruit produced in the Jebel al-Akhdar, cultivation of roses and distillation of their petals has persevered, although the main fuel for the process is no longer local wood but is now petroleum brought in by trucks over the roads.
Academic text (1992) -
That album feels like a concrete distillation of Australian music.
Blog text (10) -
And that substance he called illuminating gas, which he had made from the distillation of coal.
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"And as a chemist, I knew immediately that the poison was volatile, confirmed by its steam distillation.
Fiction book (1994) -
Music played a central role in that worship, and this facsimile edition of a 1908 collection contains the distillation of more than a hundred years of Shaker folk music and composed hymns.
Academic text (1993) -
In fact, Rhodes wrote not a word of it; it's lifted verbatim from Mildred Lewis Rutherford's Truths of History, a classic distillation of Lost Cause orthodoxy.
Blog text (18) -
The distillation of seawater can produce fresh drinking water.
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The laboratory used distillation to separate the alcohol from the mixture.
Synonyms
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A liquid or solid that forms when a gas cools
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A clear liquid collected when a substance is boiled and the steam is cooled
Compounds
- Specialized
Heating a solid material without air so it breaks down and makes gases and liquids that you collect
- Specialized
A process that separates a liquid mixture into parts by heating and cooling using their different boiling points
How Pure
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Distillation can also mean the pure liquid you collect after the process, and the root stillare 'to drip' gives a clear image of clean drops falling into a container. That's why the same word can name both the process and the liquid you gather.