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Distilling
Distillation is a means of separating Liquids through differences in their boilingPoints. The device used in distillation is referred to as a still and consists at a minimum of a pot in which the source material is heated, a condenser in which the heated Gas is cooled back to the liquid state, and a receiver in which the concentrated or purified liquid is collected. The equipment may effect separation by one of two main methods. Firstly the vapours given off by the heated mixture may consist of two liquids with significantly different boiling points. Thus, the vapour that is given off is in the vast majority of one or the other liquid, which after condensation and collection effects the separation. The second method (fractional distillation) relies upon a gradient of temperatures existing in the condenser stage of the equipment. Often in this technique, a vertical condenser, or column, is used. By extracting products that are liquid at different heights up the column, it is possible to extract liquids that have different boiling points. (from Wikipedia)
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Parents Separating A Process where a SelfConnectedObject is separated into (some of) its parts. Note that Separating is different from Detaching in that the latter only results in the two objects not being connected. Note too that Separating is different from Removing in that one or both of the two things which are separated may or may not be moved from the location where they were separated.


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