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Distillate

Distillate \Dis"till*ate\ (d[i^]s"t[i^]l*[asl]t or d[i^]s*t[i^]l"[asl]t), n. (Chem.) The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
distillate

"product of distillation," 1864; see distill + -ate (1).

Wiktionary
distillate

n. 1 The liquid that has been condensed from vapour during distillation; normally a purified form or a fraction of an original liquid 2 (context by extension English) An essence of something

WordNet
distillate

n. a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling [syn: distillation]

Usage examples of "distillate".

The investigations also bear directly on the coking processes, especially the by-product process, as showing the varying proportion of each of the volatile products derivable from types of coals occurring in the various coal fields of the United States, the time and temperature at which these distillates are given off, the variation in quality and quantity of the products, according to the conditions of temperature, and, in addition, explain the deterioration of coals in storage, etc.

They were full of petroleum distillates, and could easily set even a landcruiser afire.

As I noted before, the Big Uglies burn not just petroleum in their vehicles, but rather distillates of petroleum.

The facilities which produce those distillates are large and prominent.

Most of this oil simply cannot be used otherwise, since we have only three-excuse me, now only two-refineries with the sophisticated catalytic cracking chambers needed to refine heavy oil into light distillate products.

On a second cotton ball he poured petroleum distillate, the neutralizing agent.

Distillate of man's total experience with God--a tremendous logical system, a comforting web deduced by the computer from the postulates given it--in particular the postulate that God existed.

As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as fuel for oil lamps.