cohobate

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

cohobation

Translations edit

to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate

Bulgarian: предестилирам (predestiliram)
Italian: coobare

Noun edit

cohobate (plural cohobates)

The concentrated distillate so formed

References edit

^ “cohobate”, in Collins English Dictionary.

[1] “cohobate”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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