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due to larger size of alkyl group alcohols are less polar than water and hydrogen bonding is not so strong as in water....
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The alcohol content of whiskey can be increased by distilling because?
Because more water is removed from the solution.
If you spilled boiling alcohol on yourself would there be any difference in the severity of that burn compared with the burn caused by boiling water?
Yes there would because alcohol is already a chemical plus your burning it at a high velocity. I think we should assume the alcohol is not burning. Even so, the answer is yes, mainly because the alcohol is not as hot as the water, so it has less heat to burn you with. The water burns you more than the alcohol does.
Is ethylamine more volatile than methylamine?
Ethylamine is more volatile than methylamine.
Why does alcohol burn a cut?
Alcohols like ethanol are consisting mostly from hydrogen and carbon(C2H5OH, ethanol formula). And they react with the oxygen in the air. Out of that reason alcohol becomes more filled with water after it is getting burnt(oxygen+2hydrogen+fire reaction=water).
Are esters more volatile than alcohols?
There are two factors which determine the vapor pressure of ethanol (because what makes ethanol volatile is that it was a high vapor pressure).What makes the vapor pressure of ethanol quite high is that it is a small molecule with a low molecular weight. In fact, if you look at other molecules with similar size and weight, many of them are gases at room temperature. The molecular weight of ethanol (C2H5OH) is approximately 46 grams/mole. Carbon dioxide (CO2) has a molecular weight of 44 grams/mole, but it is a gas. Butane, C4H6 has a molecular weight of 54 g/mol and is a gas. Chlorine (Cl2) is a gas with molecular weight of 71 g/mol! So you might predict that ethanol should be a gas at room temperature from this.However, ethanol is a liquid. The reason it is a liquid is because it can hydrogen bond. The alcohol group, -OH, in the molecule has both a hydrogen bonded to an oxygen atom, which is allows for hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonding is a very strong intermolecular force, and this is what makes ethanol a liquid (and water too, which has a molecular weight of only 18 g/mol -- water is not volatile because it has two -OH groups, and so can hydrogen bond much better than ethanol can).So ethanol is volatile because it is a small and light molecule, but it is not as volatile as you might otherwise expect due to hydrogen bonding.
Why does Gasolinel evaporate faster than water because it is more what than water?
Volatile?
What all can be seprated by distillation?
Two (ore more) compounds of different volatility can be separated by distillation: Water and alcohol by example: alcohol being more volatile is richer in the vapour phase which is distilled off and separately condensed as distillate. Water with less alcohol stays more in the left behind liquid phase (called residue)
How is distillation effective when making spirits?
Alcohol is more volatile than water so when heated the water comes alcohol comes off first (distills) and hence the distillate becomes richer in alchol and leaves other material including water behind
Why does alcohol evaporate faster than water?
Alcohol evaporate faster than water because water has extensive hydrogen bonding between its molecules which results in its high boiling point whereas in alcohol, amount of hydrogen bonding is smaller as compared to water. This makes the boiling point of alcohol less than water.
Is water more or less viscous than spirits?
Ethanol has dipole moment in the C-O bond and the carbon part of it has London Disperse force, whereas water has only hydrogen bond. So ethanol has more intermolecular force than water, making it more viscous than water. Meanwhile, ethanol has less boiling point than water because London disperse force is easily disrupt by heat.
What is the most volatile gas?
Someliquidshavetendencyto to get turned intovapor form at normal room temperature and pressure.Our cloths became dry due to escape of water molecules in air. Hot and dry air make water more volatile. Gasoline (petrol)is volatile as it rapidly turn into vapor andkerosene is not. Alcohol is also volatile. In high altitude, due to less atmospheric pressure all these becomes more volatile. Higher the boiling point, less volatile the substance is.
How does petrol evaporate faster than water?
It is more volatile than water.
The alcohol content of whiskey can be increased by distilling because?
Because more water is removed from the solution.
Why chloroform feels more colder than water?
because there is an alcohol inside it
Why does the body lose more water then it needs in a hangover?
Because your body is dehydrated from the alcohol and your body uses any water it can to clean the alcohol out of your system.
Why does water evaporate slower than rubbing alcohol?
Water evaporates slower than rubbing alcohol because it is a more stable substance. The bonds in water are very strong.
Alcohol is more volitile than water why?
because it has a high vapor pressure and evaporates faster than water.
