destructive distillation in English

noun
1
decomposition of a solid by heating it in a closed container and collecting the volatile constituents given off.
Historically acetone was prepared by the destructive distillation of wood, followed by fractional distillation of the product.

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1. Aniline was first obtained in 1826 by the destructive distillation of indigo

2. Methanol acquired the name wood alcohol because it was once produced chiefly by the destructive distillation of wood.

3. "Coke" in this usage refers to carbon fuel produced through the destructive distillation of coal or oil

4. Coke definition is - the residue of coal left after destructive distillation and used as fuel; also : a similar residue left by other materials (such as petroleum) distilled to dryness.

5. Coke is a grey, hard, and porous fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive distillation process

6. More loosely, outside the field of petroleum chemistry, the term "cracking" is used to describe any type of splitting of molecules under the influence of heat, catalysts and solvents, such as in processes of destructive distillation or pyrolysis.

7. Coke definition, the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals

8. (The combination of phenols extracted, using isobutyl acetate, from the ammonia liquor condensed from the gas evolved in low-temperature (less than 700 °C) destructive distillation of coal. It consists predominantly of a mixture of monohydric and dihydric phenols.)

9. (The condensation product obtained by cooling, to approximately ambient temperature, the gas evolved in the high temperature (greater than 700 °C) destructive distillation of coal. Composed primarily of a complex mixture of condensed ring aromatic hydrocarbons with a high solid content of coal-type materials.)