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destructive distillation (medicine)


destructive distillation -->
dry distillation


Submission of an organic substance to heat in a closed vessel so that oxygen is absent and combustion prevented, with the objective of effecting its decomposition with release of volatile constituents and the formation of new substances.

Synonym: destructive distillation.