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(chemistry) Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.
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A concentration obtained during the enfleurage process, by removal of the alcohol from the extracts of the pomade.
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(transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
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(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
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(obsolete) Obtained from plants by distillation.
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(transitive) To disperse a material, usually a solid or liquid, as an aerosol.
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Synonym of air freshener
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To dehydrate, especially in food processing.
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The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components
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The product of bidistillation
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double distillation; the act of distilling twice
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The vaporization of a liquid (or solid) whose boiling point is lower than that of the environment in which it is stored.
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(transitive, informal) To sanitize with chemicals; to remove dirt from a place or object by means of chemicals.
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The simultaneous distillation of two or more liquids
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To evaporate a mixture (of solutes or solvents)
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(chemistry) to extract some substance in the process of extraction of another substance
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The simultaneous extraction of two or more things, especially the solvent extraction of two or more compounds.
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(chemistry, alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
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(dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
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To infuse along with another material
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(obsolete) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
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A process of progressive clogging of a porous medium by fine particles such as might occur in groundwater passing through, thereby reducing the medium's porosity and, accordingly, its permeability.
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The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
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(physics) A liquid that is the product of condensation of a gas, i.e. of steam.
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The condensate so formed.
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That tends to condense
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(intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
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The separation of the finer parts of drugs from the coarser parts by sifting.
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(chemical engineering, petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
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the act of decanting the supernatant liquid from a solid sediment
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(cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
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The process of boiling something down in this way.
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Any material that produces dehydration
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The removal of moisture from something.
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the removal of particles
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(chemistry, dated) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; used of spirits and acids.
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The act, or an instance, of depressurizing; a reduction of atmospheric pressure within a chamber or space vehicle etc.
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(transitive) To separate and purify (a chemical mixture) so as to eliminate known constituents and leave novel ones.
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The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.
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A process in which salt is removed from a material; desalination
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To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
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A substance (such as calcium oxide or silica gel) that is used as a drying agent because of its high affinity for water.
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The process of removing silt from a body of water.
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Separation of scum or impurities from liquid; clarification.
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(chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.
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The process of becoming less than supersaturated.
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To remove tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
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Any of various techniques for the removal of water, either from a solid or from a structure.
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A substance used for diluting.
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A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.
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(medicine) Any material that is added to a pharmaceutical preparation to make it disintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water
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(chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
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Abbreviation of distilled.
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To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
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The liquid that has been condensed from vapour during distillation; normally a purified form or a fraction of an original liquid.
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(nonstandard) distilled
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Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
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Belonging to, or used in, distilling.
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Water that has been purified by distillation.
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The extract produced by distillation.
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To form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent
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The heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids).
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Any compound that has an affinity for water such that it will extract it from other materials; a desiccant
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(transitive, chemistry) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
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(obsolete, chemistry) A reactant.
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Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
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(metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
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(transitive) To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse.
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To concentrate a solution by means of evapoconcentration
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(transitive) to expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion
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(transitive) To extract a material by boiling.
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(mineralogy, when referring to two or more minerals in a solid solution) To separate from one another at a critical point in temperature.
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Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
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A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
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A liquid used to extract a substance from another material
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(chemistry, archaic) Having the form, appearance, or nature of an extract.
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The substance left behind after something has been extracted
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(chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
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Alternative form of feints (“product of distillation”) [(alcohol production) The weak spirit produced at the end of distillation (the weak feints); sometimes also the impure spirit produced at the beginning of distillation (the strong feints), much impregnated with fusel oil.]
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A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
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The process of enriching a solution (not truly distilling it) by partially freezing it and then removing frozen material that is poorer in the dissolved material than is the liquid portion left behind.
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(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
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(chemistry) A portion of material separated by chromatography that is subjected to heartcutting
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(chemistry) A technique in chromatography in which a portion of the material separated in a first column is passed through a second.
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The product of hydrodistillation
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A variant of steam distillation in which material is soaked for some time in water after which the mixture is heated and volatile materials are carried away in the steam, condensed and separated
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Obtained by hydrodistillation
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To distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing, removing the ice (which is water) and leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid).
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(metallurgy) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.
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The liquid or semiliquid that is the end-product of liquefaction.
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The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
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distillation of a very small amount of liquid, typically an essential oil
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(chemistry) The solution remaining after a component has been removed by processes such as filtration, crystallization, etc..
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(chemical engineering) Pertaining to a certain type of distillation.
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Alternative form of off-gas [(manufacturing) Gas produced as a side effect of a chemical reaction, sometimes hazardous.]
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(historical) The right to distill spirits.
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(chemistry) A solution from which some material has been removed by extraction with an immiscible liquid
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Separated by raffination
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The condensation of a vapour following evaporation or distillation.
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(chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
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(chemistry) That which rectifies or refines; especially, a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
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(countable) A second or subsequent distillation
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To evaporate a liquid subsequent to its being condensed from the gas phase
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(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
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(pharmacy) The successive application of the same menstruum to fresh parts of the substance to be percolated.
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(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
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(chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
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(computing) To remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer or electronics cases via this method.
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(chemistry, physics) a technique of extractive distillation in which a salt or a non-volatile liquid is added to the mixture being distilled in order to remove azeotropes and aid separation
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(chemistry) A technique in which the volatile components of a material are separated by passing steam through the heated material
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To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
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(alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
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To destabilize by heating
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(chemistry) Distillation under reduced pressure, and thus at a reduced temperature with less risk of thermal degradation
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