dry distillation

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. destructive distillation.

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dry distillation British  

noun

1. another name for destructive distillation

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Example Sentences

Benzoline is not the same as benzene or benzol, which is one of the products of the dry distillation of coal.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

Cellulose burns with a luminous flame to carbon dioxide and water; dry distillation gives a complicated mixture of gaseous and liquid products and a residue of charcoal or pseudo-carbon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

This series is also found in relatively larger proportion in what is known as Dippel's oil, the product of the dry distillation of bones.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

One pound of amber yields about half an ounce of crude acid, and the glass retort, after dry distillation, must be broken to collect the acid.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

From the wood of the Juniperus oxycoedrus; an empyreumatic oil resembling liquid pitch, is obtained by dry distillation, this being named officinally, Huile de cade, or Oleum cadinum, otherwise "Juniper tar."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas