cohobate
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English[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.
Related terms[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.