Distillation
Introduction
Distillation is the process of separation of components of the mixtures having different boiling points. Distillation can be simple or fractional. Mixtures that can be separated by distillation include the mixture of acetone, water and crystal violets. Acetone and crystal violet dissolves in water to form a solution. Acetone, water and the crystal violet have 560C, 1000C and 560.860C respectively which enable them to be separated by distillation. Acetone having a low boiling point vaporized first leaving the water and the violet crystal. Acetone vapour s then cooled to get the purified liquid that was collected. Continuous heating of the two remaining liquids makes the water turn into vapour before the crystals having a high boiling point. The water vapour was cooled and collected. Thus the three mixtures were collected. The boiling point at which the first drop was collected was noted to be at 600C. At 2mL the boiling point was at 620Cthe same. The same process of distillation was done after altering the simple distillation into fractional distillation. It was noted that the boiling point at which the first drop was recorded was 550C and 540C for the Vigreux column and Glass column respectively. The boiling point at 2Ml for Vigreux and Glass Tube at 2mL was also noted to be 550C and 560C respectively.
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