destructive distillation

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   heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products

   Broaderfractionation

   Narrowercarbonization

Questions about destructive distillation

What does destructive distillation mean?

destructive distillation means "heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products".

Is destructive distillation a common word?

destructive distillation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.