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Distillation, an Uncommon card
Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances by selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Ranked #1,797 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Distillation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Distillation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Distillation provides a ______ and time-tested solution to separate a diversity of chemicals in a continuous manner with high purity.
Answer
convenient. Distillation provides a convenient and time-tested solution to separate a diversity of chemicals in a continuous manner with high purity. From the Distillation article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Multilingualism. Multilingualism 87 · Color television 84 · Distillation 81 · Lorentz force 78 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Distillation can operate over a wide range of pressures from 0.14 bar to nearly 21 bar and is capable of separating feeds with high volumetric flowrates and various components that cover a range of relative volatilities from only 1.17 to 81.2.
- Distillation provides a convenient and time-tested solution to separate a diversity of chemicals in a continuous manner with high purity.
- However, distillation has an enormous environmental footprint, resulting in the consumption of approximately 25% of all industrial energy use.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Distillation article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Distillation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original PNG by User:Quantockgoblin , SVG adaptation by User:Slashme, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




