"Distillate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rosin spirit perhaps contains hydrides intermediate in composition between those of the CnH{2n-6} and CnH{2n} series, also derived like the latter from hydrocarbons of the benzene series. Finally, Dr Armstrong mentioned that the volatile portion of the distillate from the non-volatile product of the oxidation of oil of turpentine in moist air furnishes ordinary cymene when treated in the manner above described. The fact that rosin spirit yields a different cymene is, he considers, an argument against the view which has more than once been ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... already delivered hers. Dr. Braun combined them, then heated the compound, adding a distillate of his own. He ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
... p. 93, is interesting; it is an apparatus for rectifying spirits, by distilling, and liquefying only the most volatile portions of the distillate. The spirituous liquor was heated, and the vapours caused to traverse a long zigzag tube, wherein the less volatile portions condensed to liquid, which flowed back into the vessel; the vapour then passed into another vessel, and then through a second ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir
... portion, boiling between 50 deg. and 60 deg. C., mixed with strong solution of sodium bisulphite. The crystalline cake of acetone sodium bisulphite, which separates on standing, is well pressed, to free it from impurities, decomposed by distillation with dilute sodium carbonate, and the aqueous distillate of pure acetone dehydrated over calcium chloride. Acetone is a colourless, mobile liquid of sp. gr. .792 at 20 deg. C., it boils at 56.5 deg. C., has a peculiar, pleasant, ethereal odour, and is mixible with water, alcohol, ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... wearily. The small room was not a cheerful place in which to spend the winter nights alone. Walls and floor were uncovered and were roughly boarded with heat-cracked lumber; the stove was rusty, and gave out a smell of warm iron, while a black distillate had dripped from its pipe. There were, however, several well-filled bookcases and one ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss |
