Editing Distillation (section)

==== Greek and Roman terminology ====
According to British chemist T. Fairley, neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any term for the modern concept of distillation. Words like "distill" would have referred to something else, in most cases a part of some process unrelated to what now is known as distillation. In the words of Fairley and German chemical engineer Norbert Kockmann respectively:
{{Blockquote|text=The Latin "distillo," from de-stillo, from stilla, a drop, referred to the dropping of a liquid by human or artificial means, and was applied to any process where a liquid was separated in drops. To distil in the modern sense could only be expressed in a roundabout manner.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fairley |first=T. |date=1907 |title=The Early History of Distillation |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1907.tb02205.x |journal=Journal of the Institute of Brewing |language=en |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=559–582 |doi=10.1002/j.2050-0416.1907.tb02205.x}}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|text=Distillation had a broader meaning in ancient and medieval times because nearly all purification and separation operations were subsumed under the term ''distillation'', such as filtration, crystallization, extraction, sublimation, or mechanical pressing of oil.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kockmann |first=Norbert |url=https://www.academia.edu/43754849 |title=Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles |publisher=Academic Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-12-386547-2 |editor-last=Andrzej |editor-first=Górak |pages=1–43 |language=en |chapter=History of Distillation |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-386547-2.00001-6 |editor-last2=Sorensen |editor-first2=Eva}}</ref>}}According to Dutch chemical historian [[Robert Jacobus Forbes|Robert J. Forbes]], the word ''distillare'' (to drip off) when used by the Romans, e.g. [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]] and [[Pliny the Elder]], was "never used in our sense".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Forbes |first=R. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeqWOkKYn28C |title=A Short History of the Art of Distillation: From the Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]] |year=1948 |isbn=978-90-04-00617-1 |pages=15 |orig-date=Reprinted 1970}}</ref>