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distillate

distillate

3 7.7
A clear liquid collected when a substance is boiled and the steam is cooled
  • noun
  • /dɪˈstɪlət/
  • Specialized
translation icon : destilado
  • Twelve hours later, he awoke and set at once to mixing the beet pollen distillate with jasmine oil and citron essence in varying proportions.
  • distillate fuel
  • distillate oil
  • petroleum distillates

It's the derivatives in the products that are being made such as distillates that are used for vaping.

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Examples

  • There are distinct droplets of a heavy liquid at the bottom of the aqueous distillate.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Transporting hydrogen is prohibitively expensive and requires distillates of crude oil.

    Blog text (33)
  • Horrified, I held the flask as the first few milliliters of distillate flowed into it.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Unlike the combustion of clean fuels, such as distillate oil and natural gas, coal combustion and gasification can produce significant amounts of particulates and release high levels of sulfur, nitrogen, and alkali.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The distillate from the distillation process is clear and free of impurities.

  • After the distillation, the chemist carefully collected the distillate in a flask.

  • In the oil industry, distillate fuels are essential for transportation and heating.

Synonyms

distillation
vsdistillate
  • Specialized
1 5.3

A pure liquid collected by heating a solution and cooling its steam

is framed as the product obtained from distilling a substance

How Pure

distillate
  • Specialized
3 7.7
mixture
  • Specialized
55 3.5

Surface Forms

distillate singular
distillates plural

Morphology

distillate = distill (transparent) = distill + ate

Formed by adding the suffix '-ate' to 'distill' to mean the product/result of distillation, which is directly inferable from the base.

Etymology

Distillate comes from the Latin distillare, made of dis- 'apart' and stillare 'to drip'. Think of drops 'dripping apart' into a flask — a distillate is the purified liquid collected from those drops.