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Decoction vs Evaporation - What's the difference?

decoction | evaporation |

As nouns the difference between decoction and evaporation

is that decoction is decoction while evaporation is evaporation.

decoction

Noun

(en noun)
  • An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
  • * 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
  • Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
  • * 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
  • Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.

    evaporation

    English

    Noun

  • The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
  • The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
  • (archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.
  • See also

    * vaporization