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distillation

noun as in distillate

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Preceding all those Gen Z memes and TikToks about the tragic unhipness of skinny jeans and Harry Potter fandom, that pitch-perfect first season was a prescient distillation of millennial anxieties about their waning cultural relevance.

The memo was a distillation of the points Gloria had already raised at two City Council meetings that same year.

Arak is from the Arabic word for “sweat,” which is sort of unappetizing but also accurately describes the distillation process in action.

The Waterloo researchers wanted to take the distillation process further.

The result is a perfect distillation of the ethos of The Flavor Equation, which comes out on October 27 and is featured in Eater’s fall 2020 cookbook preview.

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Desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.

But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.

Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.

The low wine then goes through a second distillation phase in a smaller spirit still—but more on that in a moment.

To produce deliciously smooth drams of single malt, the region has refined the ancient art of distillation.

The yield was increased by acidulating the mixture with sulphuric acid before the distillation.

By distillation a small quantity of oil was isolated, which possesses the characteristic odor of the preparation.

He has repeatedly obtained it from distillation from human pathological fluids.

From the tincture prepared with proof spirit, by distillation and evaporation.

Anthracene is one of the last products passing over in the dry distillation of coal-tar.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to distillation, such as: purification, cleansing, and refining.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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