Editing Destructive distillation (section)

==Applications==
* Destructive distillation of [[wood]] produces [[methanol]] and [[acetic acid]], together with a solid residue of [[charcoal]].<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1002/14356007.a04_099 |chapter=Biomass Chemicals |title=Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry |date=2000 |last1=Tokay |first1=Barbara A. |isbn=978-3-527-30385-4 }}</ref>
* Destructive distillation of a tonne of [[coal]] can produce 700&nbsp;kg of [[Coke (fuel)|coke]], 100 liters of [[Ammonium hydroxide|liquor ammonia]], 50 liters of [[coal tar]] and 400 m<sup>3</sup> of [[coal gas]].
* Destructive distillation is an increasingly promising method for recycling monomers derived from waste [[polymer]]s.
* Destructive distillation of [[natural rubber]] resulted in the discovery of [[isoprene]] which led to the creation of synthetic rubbers such as [[neoprene]].