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The crude oil is heated to high temperatures at the base of a tall fractionating column, vaporizing many of the components that rise within the column.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

It was only decades later that scientists discovered why fractionating doses definitely improves radiation therapy outcomes, and homeopathy had nothing to do with it.

From Slate • May 4, 2016

But in 1926 University of Chicago Chemist Fred Koch and his assistant Lemuel McGee began dissolving, fractionating and distilling tons of bulls' testicles in an attempt to discover what it is that makes bulls bulls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Counting everything from handsaws, screwdrivers and light machines to fractionating towers, railroad sidings, dams and shipyards, the new industrial investment from July 1940 to the end of 1943 came to something more than $20 billion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The liquid there heated and changed state, rising as vapor through the fractionating column to catch in the condenser and trickle in droplets into the collection flask.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor