ALL meanings of retorted
re·tort
R r - verb with object retorted to sterilize food after it is sealed in a container, by steam or other heating methods. 1
- verb with object retorted Chemistry. to subject (shale, ore, etc.) to heat and possibly reduced pressure in order to produce fuel oil, metal, etc. 1
- noun retorted Chemistry. a vessel, commonly a glass bulb with a long neck bent downward, used for distilling or decomposing substances by heat. a refractory chamber, generally cylindrically shaped, within which some substance, as ore or coal, is heated as part of a smelting or manufacturing process. an airtight, usually cylindrical vessel of fire clay or iron, used in the destructive distillation chiefly of coal and wood in the manufacture of illuminating gas. 1
- noun retorted a sterilizer for food cans. 1