cohobate

English

Etymology

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

Verb

cohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)

1. (physical chemistry, alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

Related terms

• cohobation

Translations

to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate

• Bulgarian: предестилирам (predestiliram)
• Italian: coobare

Noun

cohobate (plural cohobates)

1. The concentrated distillate so formed