vacuum distillation

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noun Chemistry.

a process of distillation employing a vacuum that by lowering the pressure on a liquid allows volatilization at a lower temperature than normal.

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Origin of vacuum distillation

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby vacuum distillation

vacuum brake, vacuum casting, vacuum cleaner, vacuum coffee maker, vacuum concrete, vacuum distillation, vacuum drying, vacuum energy, vacuum flask, vacuum fluctuation, vacuum forming

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Desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.
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But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
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But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.
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Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.
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The low wine then goes through a second distillation phase in a smaller spirit still—but more on that in a moment.
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Its first cost and expense in working to be much less than that of the Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engine.
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The Wheal Prosper 16-inch pole high-pressure expansive steam vacuum engine commenced its up-stroke with steam of 100 lbs.
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The conversion of the other, a 63-inch low-pressure vacuum engine at Wheal Gons, will be traced in this chapter.
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The steam pressure in the Newcomen atmospheric was continued unaltered in the Watt vacuum engine.
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A very thin vacuum shutter forms a better interrupter of sound waves than a brick wall two or three feet in thickness.
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British Dictionary definitions for vacuum distillation

vacuum distillation

noun

distillation in which the liquid distilled is enclosed at a low pressure in order to reduce its boiling point

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