distillation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

distillation (countable and uncountable; plural distillations)

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
2. That which falls in drops.
3. (chemistry) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
4. The substance extracted by distilling.

Translations

falling in drips (act)

Bulgarian: изкапване (bg)

Greek: απόσταξη (el) f. (apóstaxi)

falling in drops (thing)

separation of a substance

Bulgarian: дестилация (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 蒸餾 (zh), 蒸馏 (zh) (zhēngliù) Czech: destilace (cs) f. Finnish: tislaus (fi) French: distillation (fr) f. German: Destillation (de) f.

Greek: απόσταξη (el) f. (apóstaxi) Japanese: 蒸留 (ja) (じょうりゅう, jōryū) Norwegian: destillasjon (no) m. Polish: destylacja (pl) f. Russian: дистилляция (ru) (distilljácija) f., перегонка (ru) (peregónka) f. Swedish: destillering (sv) c., destillation (sv) c. Volapük: steil (vo), steilam (vo)

substance once extracted

Bulgarian: дестилат (bg) m. Dutch: Destillaat Finnish: tisle (fi)

German: Destillat n. Greek: απόσταγμα (el) n. (apóstagma) Volapük: steilot (vo), steilat (vo)