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distillment

distillment

8.5
To purify a liquid by boiling it and collecting the steam that turns back into liquid
  • noun
  • /dɪˈstɪlmənt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : destilación
  • The chemical laboratory ran several distillments to obtain pure water from contaminated sources.

Examples

  • The perfume was created through careful distillment of natural oils and essences.

  • After the distillment, the liquid was clear and free from impurities.

  • Old distilleries perfected the distillment of whiskey over hundreds of years.

  • The distillment process requires careful temperature control.

  • Can you explain the distillment of essential oils?

  • The distillment of the essential oils requires a precise method to ensure purity.

  • Through the distillment process, the laboratory was able to extract the active compounds from the plant material.

Synonyms

distillation
vsdistillment
  • Specialized
1 5.9

Heating a liquid to make steam and cooling the steam to get pure liquid

has identical meaning but is an alternate spelling

Surface Forms

distillment singular
distillments plural

Morphology

distillment = distill (transparent) = distill + ment

The noun directly names the process formed from the verb 'distill' using the productive nominalizer '-ment'.

Etymology

Distillment comes from the old Latin verb distillare, which means 'to drip down' and is built from parts like dis- 'apart' and stillare 'to drip'. Think of steam rising and then 'dripping' down as pure water, so distillment is the process of making a liquid pure by boiling and collecting the clean drops.