Fractional distillation

Medieval · Materials · 800

TL;DR

Fractional distillation - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Fractional distillation - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Alembic

Required Knowledge

  • Alchemy

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Fractional distillation:

Kerosene Wood gas and thermolamp Ethanol (isolation)

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Alembic Kerosene Wood gas and thermolamp Ethanol (isolation)

Tags

Chemistry

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