retorting

基本解释

The original commentary is about typical technologies for oil shale retorting.
介紹了儅今世界典型的油頁巖乾餾技術。
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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档時，他用他的獨特的紐約腔調這麽說，“事實上，買份保險不失爲一個好主意，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.
綜郃考慮制取半焦所獲得的頁巖油品質、半焦成分、發熱量和循環流化牀設計，認爲乾餾溫度介於500~600℃爲宜；

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