06 Refinement:
Distillation,
the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling
points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist,
Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many
of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today – liquefaction,
crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation
and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he
invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other
perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or
forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation
and was the founder of modern chemistry.


This is today's methods of distillation.Fractional distillation is also possible.
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