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Destructive distillation

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Noun
  1. 1
    The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way. countable, physical, uncountable
  2. 2
    heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products wordnet

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