Distilling
[dɪ'stɪl]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distill
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Examples
- In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the annual report of the president of a distilling company I once saw the statement that business had increased in the dry states. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Turpentine, for example, is made by distilling the sap of pine trees. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Method of distilling liquids by incandescent conductor immersed in the liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Laboratory processes like distilling, filtering, crystallization, sublimation, became known to the Europeans through them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Still another instance is seen in one of Edison's caveats, where he describes a method of distilling liquids by means of internally applied heat through electric conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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