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Which mixture would be easier to separate by distillation a mixture of pentane and octane or a mixture of pentane and a branched-chain octane isomer Explain your reasoning?
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∙ 14y ago
hexane and octane is easier to separate than hexane and heptane because the difference in their boiling points is greater thus hexane will distill out of solution more completely before octane
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoConsult a table of vapor pressures. The compounds which differ the most would be separated more easily, because they would 'boil off' (change to the vapor phase) at different temperatures.
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Explain fractional distillation and how it is used in refining oil?
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how misleading reasoning is used to influence others
What is the word for using logic to explain observations?
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fractional distillation and gas chromatography
Could distillation be used to separate air and oxygen nitrogen carbon dioxide argon and so forth explain?
Each constituent of air has its specific boiling point temperature, so that liquid air can be separated into its constituents by distillation in the same manner as any mixture of two or more liquids with different boiling points.
Explain why could distillation be used to separate air into oxygen nitrogen carbon dioxide argon and so forth?
Each constituent of air has its specific boiling point temperature, so that liquid air can be separated into its constituents by distillation in the same manner as any mixture of two or more liquids with different boiling points.
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