The elements of fractional distillation.

A very impure variety of pyroligneous acid, or vinegar made from the destructive distillation of wood, is sometimes used, on account of the highly preservative power of the creosote which it contains, and also to impart the smoke-flavour; in which latter object, however, the coarse flavour of tar is given, rather than that derived from the smoke from combustion of wood.

This series is also found in relatively larger proportion in what is known as Dippel's oil, the product of the dry distillation of bones.

Boswell inquired the Doctor's opinion on illicit distillation, and how the great moralist would act in an affray between the smugglers and the excise.

His own benefit is the residuum after this double distillation of moral motivea mere accident."

Let us now examine what economic advantages this process presents over the old method of rectifying by pure and simple distillation.

The pages which describe him read like a quintessential distillation of the Florentine story of the time and of the human results which it had availed to produce.

I know you haue bene prying like the Deuill from East to West, to heare what newes: I will acquaint thee with some, & that a secret distillation before thou goest.

DIPPEL'S OIL, an oil obtained from the distinctive distillation of horn bones.

Everyone who merely visits Florence holds it a duty to bring home at least one flask of the Val d'Ema liqueur from the Carthusian monastery four or five miles distant from the city, not because that fiery distillation is peculiarly attractive but because the vessels which contain it are at once pretty decorations and evidences of travel and culture.

I was nearly fainting, and should have fallen, had it not been for a kind-hearted squaw in a satin slip, and blond trimmings, bathing my temples with a grateful distillation of otto of roses.

then the darted sun-beams from her gladdened eye, drinking up, at one sip, the precious distillation from the pearl- dropt cheek!