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stillhead

stillhead noun: the head of a distillation still.

Noun

stillhead (plural stillheads)

  1. The head of a distillation still.
    • The upper end of the coil D communicates by a pipe with the stillhead C2, and its lower end opens into a hollow column D3, which is provided with a glass gauge D3, and has at the bottom an outlet pipe[…]1895, Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, William Joseph Dibdin, Chemical Technology: Lighting, by W. Y. Dent [and others, page 208
    • […] vapor is partially condensed in a stillhead maintained at a constant temperature, the residual vapor escaping from the stillhead has a[…]1914, American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, page 2481

Forms of stillhead

pluralstillheads

Questions about stillhead

What does stillhead mean?
Stillhead means the head of a distillation still.
What part of speech is stillhead?
Stillhead is a noun.
What is the plural of stillhead?
The plural of stillhead is stillheads.

Words near stillhead in the dictionary

  1. stilletto
  2. stillettoes
  3. stillettos
  4. Stilley
  5. Stilleys
  6. stillhead
  7. stillheads
  8. stillhouse
  9. stillhouses
  10. stilliard
  11. stilliards

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