Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of distillation repeated with the previously condensed product.
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- noun uncountable The
purification of aliquid by means of multipledistillations - noun countable A second or subsequent distillation
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Examples
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But removing the odious additives by redistillation or other procedures was a process any self-respecting chemist could engineer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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But removing the odious additives by redistillation or other procedures was a process any self-respecting chemist could engineer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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It loses its color on redistillation and becomes slightly less fragrant.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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This ammonia was used in specially constructed engines, and was then exhausted into a tank containing water, which brought it back into its original form of commercial ammonia, ready for redistillation, and, it was stated, with a comparatively small loss.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The crude bromine is purified by repeated shaking with potassium, sodium or ferrous bromide and subsequent redistillation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The naphtha on redistillation yields benzine, from which are prepared some of our most beautiful dyes; the dead oil, as the less volatile portion is termed, furnishes carbolic acid, used as a disinfectant and antiseptic, together with anthracene and naphthaline; all three substances the starting points of new series of coloring matters.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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The dwindling supplies of water were hoarded in vast subterranean reservoirs, and, by means of a perfect system of redistillation, the priceless fluid was used over and over again both for human purposes and for irrigating the land within the cities.
A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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To burn turpentine in lamps it only requires purification by redistillation, and a burner which will give increased oxygen for the consumption of the large amount of carbon which it contains.
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For solutions of silver, however, the most effectual remedy against precipitation is the use of very pure water, procured by slow redistillation in glass vessels at a temperature much below the boiling point.
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By treating the distillate with chloride of calcium, and by its redistillation, the pure ether may be obtained.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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