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Removing whatever doesn't belong until only the good stuff remains.
means To make something clean, pure, or free of contaminants, whether water, metal, or a guilty conscience.
from From Latin purificare, joining purus (clean, unmixed) and facere (to make) — literally to make pure.
Ritual rootsMost religions use water to purify the spiritual, not the dirty.
ChemistryDistillation purifies by boiling, separating, then condensing back.
Gold standardRefining gold means burning away everything that isn't gold.