fractional distillation

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   fractionation of a liquid by distillation

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Questions about fractional distillation

What does fractional distillation mean?

fractional distillation means "fractionation of a liquid by distillation".

Is fractional distillation a common word?

fractional 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.