Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 375
as is conducted in cast-iron retorts, and is an example of this form of distillation. There are two distinct operations in the production of ardent spirits. The one is the conversion ofcertain vegetable principles into alcohol, the other the separation of the alcohol from other substanceswith which… … subjected to immediate fermentation, or it is indirectly obtained by subjecting amylaceous grains to cer-tain processes by which the starch they contain is first converted into sugar, and the sugar afterwardsalcoholized. For this latter purpose, the various grains are subjected to the operation of…
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