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DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does destructive distillation mean?

• DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION (noun)
The noun DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("destructive distillation" is a kind of...):

fractional process; fractionation (a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "destructive distillation"):

carbonisation; carbonization (the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens))

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