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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Raoult's law, Moonshine, Dalton's law, Distilled water, Fractional distillation, Oil refinery, Continuous distillation, Purified water, Vapor-liquid equilibrium, Distilled beverage, Vacuum distillation, Visbreaker, Fractionating column, Rotary evaporator, Batch distillation, Theoretical plate, Reflux, Relative volatility, Fractional freezing, Lute, McCabe-Thiele method, Fenske equation, Don Cenobio Sauza, Packed bed, Perkin triangle, Reboiler, Soxhlet extractor, Don Francisco Javier Sauza, Spinning cone, Steam distillation, Reactive distillation, Fractionation Research, Lincoln County Process, Azeotropic distillation, Herbal distillate, Don Eladio Sauza, Destructive distillation, Column still, Pot still, Kugelrohr, Spirit safe, Air stripping, Salt-effect distillation, Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins, Distillation Design, Raschig ring, Extractive distillation, De-asphalter, Spinning band distillation, Residue, Dry distillation, Bancroft point, Cohobation, Structured packing, Rayleigh Still, Corporification. Excerpt: Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their boiling points. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction. Commercially, distillation has a number of applications. It is used to separate crude oil into more fractions for specific uses such as transport, power generation and heating. Water is distilled to remove impurities, such as salt from seawater. Air is distilled to separate its components-notably oxygen, nitrogen, and argon-for industrial use. Distillation of fermented solutions has been used since ancient times to produce distilled beverages with a higher alcohol content. The premises where distillation is carried out, especially distillation of alcohol, are known as a distillery. Distillation apparatus of Zosimus, fr...
