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How does steam distillation work to extract a substance from a mixture, below its boiling point?
This is a small confusion I have regarding steam distillation. Let us consider a sample of water mixed with an organic compound that is insoluble in water. Let us also consider that the boiling point ...
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What is the difference between distillation temperature and boiling point?
Is there a difference between the distillation temperature and the boiling point of a fluid, in my case kerosene? And if there is, what is the difference?
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Distillation of water and propanone
I distilled a solution consisting of propanone and water and recorded the boiling point of propanone depending on different concentrations. I thought that the boiling point elevation would be the ...
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Why does the ethanol-water mixture not burn during fractional distillation?
Ethanol-water solution has a flash point lower than ethanol's boiling point in almost all cases. So how is the fractional distillation of the solution possible? Why doesn't the solution ignite? Is it ...
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Why is the temperature graph sigmoidal in simple distillation of components with very different bps?
I'm writing an organic chemistry lab report on distillation and I thought I understood this, but the more I look at my lab textbook, I realize I don't. My textbook 1 explains that the temperature of ...
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When exactly does the first drop of distillate appear in a distillation?
The below image (source: here) is from a fractional distillation of a mixture of two liquids, one with a boiling point of 69 degrees celsius and the other with a boiling point of 98 degrees celsius. ...
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Is 99% Isopropyl Alcohol sold in stores really 99%?
My understanding is that an azeotropic mixture of isopropanol and water is 91%. This makes sense as to why there are so many brands of rubbing alcohol sold at 91%. There are also some sold as 99%, ...
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Enrichment of D2O
The Wikipedia page for deuterium oxide (heavy water) says that its boiling point is 374.5 K and the one for ordinary water is 373.13 K.
Is there a way of distillation which we can use to enrich ...
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How to separate benzyl alcohol and meta-cresol
Benzyl alcohol and meta-cresol boiling point's are not so different, the fractional distillation will be very difficult, what can i do for separate this two composites ?
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boiling point and distillation relation
i need help with the fractional distillation method of a couple of substances at least more than two substances , just like air
actually what am i looking for is that why do substances in air with a ...
