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How would you separate a mixture of heptane and heptanol at boiling point?
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∙ 13y ago
Since Heptane has a boiling point of 98 degrees Celsius, and Heptanol has a boiling point of 176 degrees Celsius, you'd evaporate or boil the Heptane and Heptanol mixture to around 120 degrees Celsius. Which would leave the Heptanol behind and have the Heptane evaporated.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 13y agoDistillation will do it. It is the process of separating a mixture of compounds with different boiling points. n-heptane has a boiling point of 98oC & n-heptanol has a boiling point of around 175oC.
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∙ 7y agoHeat the mixture. At 98 deg C, the heptane will start boiling off along with some evaporating heptanol. The temperature will remain at 98 deg until all the heptane has boiled off. The temperature of the liquid will then start rising again. Stop heating, and condense the vapours in a separate container.
The liquid remaining in the original container will be pure heptanol. The condensate will be mainly heptane with a bit of heptanol. Repeat the process to obtain greater purity of heptane.
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∙ 15y agoyou would use the boil it to about 110c and the heptane will evaporate leaving the heptanol
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∙ 9y agoA mixture of heptane and heptanol can be separated through fractional distillation. This is possible because of the elevated boiling point of heptanol compared to heptane.
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∙ 14y agophase separation. the two solvents must have similar polarities and b.p.'s - no crystals would form...and if for some reason they did, they would be impure
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∙ 15y agoDIstillation
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