Retort

A retort is a primitive distillation apparatus. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long downward-pointing neck. The liquid to be distilled is placed in the vessel and heated. The neck acts as a condenser, allowing the evaporated vapors to condense and flow along the neck to a collection vessel placed underneath. Advances in laboratory technology, especially the invention of the Liebig condenser, have largely made retorts obsolete.

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Distillation: Distillation is a means of separating liquids through differences in their vapor pressures....

Liquid: A liquid (a phase of matter) is a fluid whose volume is fixed under conditions of constant temperature and pressure; and, whose shape is usually determined by the container it fills. Furthermore, liquids exert pressure on the sides of a container as well as on anything within the liquid itself; this...

Condenser: The term condenser has the following meanings:...