How do you separate ethyl alcohol from a mixture?

Answer 1

First, place the beverage in a container that can be sealed (a flask would be perfect.) Connect this container to another that is submerged in ice water. It may be a good idea to attach a balloon to this apparatus to allow for the air expansion.

Then heat up the container with the beverage in it until it starts simmering (don't make it boil rapidly because then you'll be creating water vapour.) In theory, the Ethanol will evaporate and go to the second container and then condense on the sides of the container.

This process will undoubtfully ruin the taste of the wine or beer, but you'll have a very strong cleaning agent in the other container (that you should certainly not consider drinking!)

Answer 2

Ethyl alcohol's boiling point is 78°C, and methyl alcohol's boiling point is 65°C, so fractional distillation will be able to separate them.

Answer 3

Evaporate off the ethyl alcohol, as it has a lower boiling point (about 78 degrees Celsius). Once the mixture's temp gets above the boiling point of the ethyl alcohol, you can be guaranteed that all of the ethyl alcohol has been evaporated, leaving the iodine behind.

Answer 4

Ethanol's boiling point is 78 degrees C and methanol's boiling point is 65 degrees C, therefore you could use distillation to separate them.

Answer 5

You would use distillation to separate ethyl alcohol from a mixture.

Answer 6

The general method is the distillation.