Just as I know I may also need to know how to distill my own urine for drinking water.
In the long term, when technologies have stabilised, we may well be able to distill our thinking to a bill of rights for the internet.
William Kristol, as ever, manages to distill the rot down to its ludicrous essence: "What's the harm of bombing them at least for a few weeks and seeing what happens?
"We talk to companies in [the] airline, automotive, computer and low-tech [industries], trying to distill in R&D things that other industries do better than us," says Bob Ruffalo, the company's head of R&D.
The Longer Rules and Shorter Rules (for monasteries) and other ascetic writings distill the experience that began at Annesi and continued in his supervision of the monasteries of Cappadocia: they were to exert strong influence on the monastic life of Eastern Christianity.
The concept of theology that is applicable as a science in all religions and that is therefore neutral is difficult to distill and determine.
Grapes from different species are eaten fresh or dried (raisins and currants), and there are now hundreds of varietals derived from V. vinifera and related species used to produce different kinds of wine and to distill into brandy, including cognac and Armagnac.
Near the end of the 18th century, the Scottish engineer William Murdock developed a practical method to distill gas from coal for illumination.
The Romantic period witnessed the emergence of a truly national school of painting in the United States, where events and scenery provided a constant source of stimulation for artists content to distill their own poetry from the world around them.
After filtration, the solution of sodium ruthenate is treated with chlorine gas to distill off the ruthenium as the volatile compound ruthenium tetroxide.
