dis
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llate
Plural
distillates
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a product resulting from heating a liquid until it changes to vapor and then allowing it to change back to liquid
- Perfume makers often use a distillate of flowers to create their fragrances.
- The laboratory produced a clear distillate after purifying the water.
- Whiskey is a type of distillate obtained from fermenting and distilling grains.
- The essential oils are extracted as a fragrant distillate during the distillation process.
- The distillate collected from the experiment demonstrated the success of the separation process.
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