Destructive distillation

Destructive distillation --> dry distillation

Submission of an organic substance to heat in a closed vessel so that oxygen is absent and combustion prevented, with the objective of effecting its decomposition with release of volatile constituents and the formation of new substances.

Synonym: destructive distillation.

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