Its distillation was supposed to be one of the lost arts, but the secret was rediscovered by this man Crochard.

There are some establishments, however, in which distillation is still carried on, and in these, the still-room maid has her old duties to perform.

The berries are capable of undergoing vinous fermentation, and affording alcohol by distillation.

The juice is sensibly acid, and is capable of being, by fermentation, converted into vinegar, and, mixed with water or the dregs of beer, yields, by distillation, an alcoholic liquor.

These drugs, products of coal-oil distillation, are powerful depressants.

The Arabians invented distillation; and thus, by obtaining the spirit of fermented liquors in a less diluted slate, added to its destructive quality.

The antient story of Prometheus, who concealed in his bosom the fire he had stolen, and afterwards had a vulture perpetually gnawing his liver, affords so apt an allegory for the effects of drinking spirituous liquors, that one should be induced to think the art of distillation, as well as some other chemical processes (such as calcining gold), had been known in times of great antiquity, and lost again.

A very strong brandy is obtained by distillation.

It is a curious fact, that until the legal distillation of whisky was prohibited in the Highlands, it was never drunk at gentlemen's tables.

Wood alcohol, which is made by the destructive distillation of wood, is another important by-product.

Acetate of lime, which is used extensively in chemical plants, and charcoal, are other products which result from wood distillation.

According to Mr. D'A. Bernard, it is especially important, in the dry distillation of distiller's wash in a closed vessel, for the production of methyls, ammonia, acetates, and methylamine, that the mass shall be divided as completely as possible, since it then takes but a relatively moderate heat to completely destroy the organic coloring matter contained in the wash.

For obtaining anhydrous or very concentrated vinegar directly from pyrolignite of lime or other acetates by a single distillation, Mr. D. Sandmann, of Charlottenburg, employs the apparatus shown in the accompanying engraving.

It consists of a double-bottomed copper or enameled iron boiler, A, arranged for being heated by steam, and the upper part of which is protected against the action of the acid vapors disengaged during distillation by a lining of refractory clay.

The mass is afterward mixed with care by means of the stirrer, and the distillation may then proceed at once.

The pine blocks upon Sixteenth Street (experiment 25) were treated with the residual products of petroleum distillation.

We are apt to regard the rain solely as a product of distillation, and, as such, very pure.

The elements of fractional distillation, by Clark Shove Robinson & Edwin Richard Gilliland.

The elements of fractional distillation.

ROBINSON, FLORENCE C. The elements of fractional distillation.

Financial accounting: a distillation of experience.

Cultivated for its flowers, for the distillation of lavender water, for flavouring sauces, and for medicinal purposes.

ACETONE, a highly inflammable liquid obtained generally by the dry distillation of acetates.

ACROLEIN, a light volatile limpid liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of fats.

ALCOHOL, pure or highly rectified spirit obtained from fermented saccharine solutions by distillation, and the intoxicating principle of all spirituous liquors.