Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condensing apparatus for stills, consisting sometimes of broad sheets of tinned copper soldered together so as to leave narrow spaces between them, the liquid flowing successively from one space to the next, and sometimes of a worm or continuous pipe in large coils.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry, archaic An
instrument orapparatus in whichwater is separated byevaporation ordistillation ; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapours is effected.
Etymologies
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dephlegmate + -or
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The head, D, which acts, by reason of its internal arrangement, as a dephlegmator, is of enameled iron, and is provided with a thermometer,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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