User talk:Cindy Jones1

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Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the article, Distillate. I wonder if this article should eventually be merged to Distillation, while Herbal distillate be spun off into a new article. Also, I believe herbal distillates are produced by a process called steam distillation. Perhaps you would like to draw various links between the two articles for completeness? --Rifleman 82 19:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I have always thought of distillation as the process of distilling and a distillate as the product of distillation, so I don't know if its appropriate to combine them or not. I noticed that under distillation there is alot about petroleum products and I am trying to think of what other 'products' of distillation there are - alcohol being the most obvious. I haven't looked, but am sure there is a large entry for that already. These herbal distillates are also commonly called hydrosols. The entry for hydrosol had previously been redirected to essential oil. I changed that since distillates are a unique thing.

--Cindy Jones1 01:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Petroleum, alcohols, a variety of organic compounds, solvents, water are all products of distillation. Even air is a distilled to give distillation products. Herbal distillates probably have more to do with perfumes which may also steam distilled.

I don't doubt that herbal distillates are unique. But the point I am trying to make is that unless herbal distillates are to be a passing mention in this article, it should get a separate page, because herbal distillates are simply not the first thing people think of when they hear "distillates". Among other problems, it would make your article hard to find among those who realliy do wish to read about herbal distillates.

The Chemistry community is trying to improve distillation as an article, adding other applications to make it more relevant to the lay person. Perhaps you would like to talk briefly about herbal distillates there and link it to the article. --Rifleman 82 04:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Rifleman, I see that you did make herbal distillates a separate page now. That's fine with me. I just thought as I said above that maybe a page on Distillates should include all products of distillation including the ones you listed above. That might tend to make it too large of an entry which is why you wanted to separate it. I carried through on the suggestions you made and added a comment to the distillation entry. Cindy Jones1 21:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)