Distillation
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Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances by selective boiling of the mixture a
Distillation equipment used by the 3rd-century alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (as imagined by the anonymous illustrator of the 15th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript Codex Parisinus graecus 2327).
Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512) Science History Institute
A retort
Old Ukrainian vodka still
Liquor
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Liquor, spirit, distilled spirit, or spirituous liquor are alcoholic drinks produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
Distillation
…unit of operation that identifies and denotes a process of physical separation, not a chemical reaction; thus an industrial installation that produces distilled beverages, is a distillery of alcohol. These are some applications of the distillation process: Distilling fermented products to yield alcoholic beverages with…
An old whiskey still
A display of various liquors in a REWE supermarket in Brandenburg, Germany
Some single-drink liquor bottles available in Germany
Viru Valge, an Estonian vodka