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destructive distillation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.96 in modern English

Syllables
de-struc-tive dis-til-la-tion
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

destructive distillations (plural)

Questions

What does destructive distillation mean?
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.

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