Application Notes:
 

bottoms (residuum)


in refining, the high-boiling residual liquid (also called residuum) — including such components as heavy fuels and asphaltic substances — that collects at the bottom of a distillation column, such as a pipe still.

Also see distillation, fuel oil.

 

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