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Definition of Coffey still
1. Noun. A still consisting of an apparatus for the fractional distillation of ethanol from fermentation on an industrial scale.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffey Still
Literary usage of Coffey still
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"Coffey still. We shall first, in Fig. 299, give a sketch of the combination of
apparatus employed at a London works, where 100000 gall, of gas-liquor are ..."
2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"The Coffey still (Fig. 7) is much used for alcohol and gas liquor distillation.
This consists of two | | FIG. «. towers, one, called the "analyzer" (E), ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Coffey still may further be regarded as a type of continuous distilling apparatus
... Beginning, as the Coffey still does, with the steam of pure water, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"In many of the still-heads employed on the large scale, for example in the Coffey
still (Fig. 28), the condensed liquid is caused, by means of suitable ..."
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