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Boiling a liquid just to ghost it back into something stronger and prettier.
means Purifying or concentrating a liquid by heating it into vapor and cooling it back to liquid, or more loosely, reducing anything down to its essential core.
from From the Latin distillare, 'to drip down,' built from de- ('down') plus stillare ('to drip'), itself from stilla, 'a drop.' The image is literal: vapor rising, condensing, and falling back drop by drop into the flask. The same stilla quietly seeps into 'instill' (to drip something in, little by little) and even 'still' as in the copper apparatus moonshiners cherish.
- ancient art
- Mesopotamians distilled perfumes over 4,000 years ago
- physics trick
- Exploits different boiling points to separate mixtures
- forbidden zone
- Methanol distills first and can blind you
- beyond booze
- Refines crude oil, water, and essential oils too
- the cut
- Distillers discard toxic heads and weak tails
scotch whisky production — speyside distilleries produce 60% of scotland's single malt whisky through copper pot still distillation
cognac distillation — charente region france, legally requires two distillations in copper alembic stills since 1936