retorting

基本解釋

The original commentary is about typical technologies for oil shale retorting.
介紹了當今世界典型的油頁巖干餾技術(shù)。
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before retorting to his on-screen partner, “Actually, that ain't a bad way to pick up insurance y’know. ”, all in his unique New York parlance.
早前還擊他的屏幕搭檔時，他用他的獨特的紐約腔調(diào)這么說，“事實上，買份保險不失為一個好主意，你知道的。”
Retorting temperature of 500—600℃ was recommended after quality of shale oil, content and calorific value of semi-coke and design of circulating fluidized bed were comprehensively considered.
綜合考慮制取半焦所獲得的頁巖油品質(zhì)、半焦成分、發(fā)熱量和循環(huán)流化床設(shè)計，認為干餾溫度介于500~600℃為宜；

If the price of oil stays high enough, if the retorting process can be made cheap enough, and if environmental concerns can be satisfied, there's a lot of oil to be had here.
NPR: Squeezing Oil Out of Stones in the Rocky Mountains

To retort means to reply angrily to someone.
Retort is also a noun.
a glass vessel with a round bulb and long tapering neck that is bent down, used esp in a laboratory for distillation
to heat in a retort