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“atmospheric distillation”
A refining process in which crude oil components are separated at atmospheric pressure by heating to temperatures of about 600-750°F and the subsequent condensing of the fractions by cooling: In chemical engineering, atmospheric distillation is an operation conducted at atmospheric pressure, in contrast to vacuum distillation or pressure distillation.
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