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# distillation

noun (distillation, uncountable; a distillation, distillations)

«distillation» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Distillation is a way of making a liquid pure by heating it until it turns into vapour (gas), then cooling the vapour so it turns back into liquid and collecting it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#m1)
2. A distillation is the most important part of something, kept after the rest is taken away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, distillation is a method of separating mixtures: salty water can be distilled to get pure water, because the water evaporates and condenses but the salt stays behind. It uses evaporation and condensation. Phrases: simple distillation, fractional distillation, distilled water.

### Examples

- Distillation can turn sea water into drinking water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x1)
- In distillation, the water evaporates and then condenses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x2)
- The salt is left behind after distillation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x3)
- Distilled water is very pure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x4)
- We watched a distillation experiment in the science lab. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x5)
- Fractional distillation separates crude oil into different fuels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x6)
- Her talk was a distillation of years of study. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/#x7)

### Note

Mostly uncountable. Verb: distil (British) or distill (American); the noun «distillation» is spelt with double l everywhere. Distillation is not the same as filtering: filtering removes solid bits, but it cannot remove salt dissolved in water.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «distillation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distillation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«distillation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/distillation.html) on Mova free.