cohobate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).[1]
Verb
[edit]cohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)
- (physical chemistry, alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
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Noun
[edit]cohobate (plural cohobates)
- The concentrated distillate so formed
References
[edit]- ^ “cohobate”, in Collins English Dictionary.