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Destructive Distillation

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Noun

1. destructive distillation

heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products

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Destructive Distillation

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noun
the decomposition of a complex substance, such as wood or coal, by heating it in the absence of air and collecting the volatile products

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Destructive Distillation

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the decomposition of a material, as coal, wood, etc., by heat in the absence of air, followed by the recovery of volatile products of the decomposition by condensation or other means: a type of calcination
see also pyrolysis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Destructive Distillation

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n.
A process by which organic substances such as wood, coal, and oil shale are decomposed by heat in the absence of air and distilled to produce useful products such as coke, charcoal, oils, and gases.

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