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  2. Dry distillation - Wikipedia

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    Dry distillation is the heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids). The method may involve pyrolysis or thermolysis, or it may not (for instance, a simple mixture of ice and glass could be separated without breaking any chemical bonds, but organic matter contains a greater diversity of molecules, some of which are likely to break).

  3. Dry cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Modern dry cleaning machines use a closed-loop system in which the chilled air is reheated and recirculated. This results in high solvent recovery rates and reduced air pollution. In the early days of dry cleaning, large amounts of perchloroethylene were vented to the atmosphere because it was regarded as cheap and believed to be harmless.

  4. Distillation - Wikipedia

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    Dry distillation (thermolysis and pyrolysis) is the heating of solid materials to produce gases that condense either into fluid products or into solid products. The term dry distillation includes the separation processes of destructive distillation and of chemical cracking, breaking down large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller hydrocarbon ...

  5. Tetrachloroethylene - Wikipedia

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    The chemist Sylvia Stoesser (1901–1991) had suggested tetrachloroethylene to be used in dry cleaning as an alternative to highly flammable dry cleaning solvents such as naphtha. [ 14 ] It is also used to degrease metal parts in the automotive and other metalworking industries, usually as a mixture with other chlorocarbons.

  6. The EPA has banned 2 cancer-causing chemicals used in dry ...

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    Dry cleaners will have 10 years to stop using perc, but in just six months, it will be prohibited in newly purchased dry-cleaning machines. TCE will have to be removed from all products within a ...

  7. Industrial separation processes - Wikipedia

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    Industrial separation processes are technical procedures which are used in industry to separate a product from impurities or other products. The original mixture may either be a natural resource (like ore, oil or sugar cane) or the product of a chemical reaction (like a drug or an organic solvent).

  8. Condenser (laboratory) - Wikipedia

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    Laboratory condensers are usually made of glass for chemical resistance, for ease of cleaning, and to allow visual monitoring of the operation; specifically, borosilicate glass to resist thermal shock and uneven heating by the condensing vapor. Some condensers for dedicated operations (like water distillation) may be made of metal

  9. How to clean your washing machine - AOL

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    First, be sure the machine is empty, place the tab inside the washer tub (not the detergent dispenser), and select the clean washer cycle. If that isn't an option on your machine, select normal or ...