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

In 1834 the same hydrocarbon was obtained by Mitscherlich by heating benzoic acid with lime, and by Péligot by the dry distillation of calcium benzoate.

From Coal and What We Get from It by Meldola, Raphael

It is also produced in considerable quantities during the dry distillation of wood, and many other organic compounds.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

Acetone is usually prepared, however, by the dry distillation of crude calcium or barium acetate.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

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

By dry distillation the bark yields an empyreumatic oil, called diogott in Russia, used in the preparation of Russia leather; to this oil the peculiar pleasant odour of the leather is due.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various