still
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.25|Swan-necked copper pot stills in the [[Glenfiddich distillery]] 250px|thumbnail|right|A still at Mackmyra Whisky|Mackmyra Whisky Distillery thumb|upright|Column still from [[Kilbeggan Distillery in County Westmeath in Ireland.]] A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been used to produce perfume and medicine, water for injection (WFI) for pharmaceutical use, generally to separate and
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- Has use
- distillation
- Has parts of class
- container
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- Distillation apparatus
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- Application
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thumb|upright=1.25|Swan-necked copper pot stills in the [[Glenfiddich distillery]] 250px|thumbnail|right|A still at Mackmyra Whisky|Mackmyra Whisky Distillery thumb|upright|Column still from [[Kilbeggan Distillery in County Westmeath in Ireland.]] A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been used to produce perfume and medicine, water for injection (WFI) for pharmaceutical use, generally to separate and purify different chemicals, and to produce distilled beverages containing ethanol.
==Application==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “still” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.