distillation

• Processo de purificação ou separação de líquidos por aquecimento até a evaporação, seguido da condensação do vapor de volta à forma líquida, usado para separar componentes com base na diferença de pontos de ebulição; também pode se referir à extração de substâncias voláteis por esse método.

A process of purifying a liquid by heating it until it vaporizes, then condensing the vapor back into liquid form, used to separate components based on differences in boiling points.

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1. Chemical processB2formalscientific

   The process of purifying a liquid by heating it until it becomes a vapor and then cooling it so that it becomes liquid again.

   Destilação

   • Distillation is used to produce pure water from seawater.
   • The laboratory uses fractional distillation to separate crude oil into its components.
   • Alcohol is concentrated through the process of distillation.

   Sinônimosrectification

2. Essence or summaryC1formal

   The extraction of the essential meaning or most important aspects of something.

   Essência ou resumo

   • This book is a distillation of years of research.
   • Her speech was a distillation of the company's core values.
   • The film is a distillation of the novel's main themes.

   Sinônimosabstractcoreessenceextractgistquintessencesubstancesummary