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Definition of Destructive distillation
1. Noun. Heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products.
Generic synonyms: Fractional Process, Fractionation
Definition of Destructive distillation
1. Noun. (chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Destructive distillation
1. Submission of an organic substance to heat in a closed vessel so that oxygen is absent and combustion prevented, with the objective of effecting its decomposition with release of volatile constituents and the formation of new substances. Synonym: destructive distillation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destructive Distillation
Literary usage of Destructive distillation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"Products of the destructive distillation of the ... of sodium and the products
of its destructive distillation in a copper retort. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"Abstract of the Discoveries made by Dr. REICHENBACH, in his examination of the
products of destructive Distillation. By WILLIAM GREGORY, MD, ..."
3. A Text-book on Chemistry by John William Draper (1861)
"THE RESINS, BALSAMS, AND BODIES ARISING IN destructive distillation.—Colophony,
Gum IMC, Amber, ... Products of the destructive distillation of Wood. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1851)
"On the Products of the destructive distillation of Animal Substances, Part I.
By Dr Thomas Anderson. In this communication the author details the general ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"destructive distillation. t When non-volatile organic substances are subjected
to heat in a close vessel they undergo destructive distillation. ..."
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