Examples of “distillation” in a Sentence

noun The process of separating a liquid mixture by heating it until part evaporates, then cooling the vapor back into liquid.

• Distillation is how the plant turns salty seawater into drinking water.
• The chemist explained that distillation works because liquids boil at different temperatures.
• My uncle built a small still for the distillation of lavender oil.

noun The act of making a liquid purer by distilling it again and again.

• Repeated distillation gave the lab a much purer sample of alcohol.
• After a third distillation, the water was clear and free of minerals.
• The perfumer relied on careful, repeated distillation to refine the oil.