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their boiling point allows them to separated by distillation, dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) boils off at 41 degrees Celsius and cyclohexane (C6H12) boils off at 81 degrees Celsius.

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Why must a container be sealed in distillation?

Short answer: Distillation heats a liquid mixture and then cools the vapor that boils off to recover the more volatile portion of the original mixture. If you have a leaky apparatus you can lose a lot of this volatile portion because it will leak into the atmosphere before it has a chance to condense into your receiving vessel. This wastes energy and can create a fire or explosion hazard if you are distilling flammable liquids. It will create health or environmental problems if you are working with toxic materials or materials that are harmful to the environment. Long answer: Distillation works by either heating a liquid to produce vapor or reducing the pressure over a liquid to make it boil into a vapor at a lower temperatures. The vapor must be condensed by cooling to recover the "distallate" product you are after. With heated distillation you will lose much of the vapor through before you can condense it if you have a leaky apparatus. This is especially true if the distillation occurs at high pressures. For vacuum distillation you may not be able to create enough vacuum to cause the liquid mixture to boil if there are any large leaks or you will waste a lot of power creating the needed vacuum pressure in a leaky distillation column.


What is the process for water distillation?

A simple distillation is when a liquid is boiled and the vapors are condensed back into liquids in a condenser and captured in a container separate from the one being heated. This method is useful for separating liquids based on their boiling points.


What is the purpose of water bath in distillation?

to convert the gas form of a substance into a liquid. If the temperature and boiling points are kept constant, then the substance with the lower boiling point will be able to be evaporated and condensed, thus separated. The condenser ultimately just cools the gas form of the substance so it may return to the liquid state.


How is fractional distillation used in petroleum and why?

Oil is a combination of numerous hydrocarbons each with a unique boiling point. Each fractional hydrocarbon may therefore be evaporated (by boiling) and condensed (by cooling) resulting in a purer hydrocarbon i.e. gasoline.


What is an ion product?

The ion product is a measure of the product of the concentrations of the ions in a solution at a given temperature. It is often used in the context of calculations involving dissociation of salts or solubility of compounds. In the case of water, the ion product (Kw) represents the product of the concentrations of hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions in pure water at a specific temperature.

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Why must a container be sealed in distillation?

Short answer: Distillation heats a liquid mixture and then cools the vapor that boils off to recover the more volatile portion of the original mixture. If you have a leaky apparatus you can lose a lot of this volatile portion because it will leak into the atmosphere before it has a chance to condense into your receiving vessel. This wastes energy and can create a fire or explosion hazard if you are distilling flammable liquids. It will create health or environmental problems if you are working with toxic materials or materials that are harmful to the environment. Long answer: Distillation works by either heating a liquid to produce vapor or reducing the pressure over a liquid to make it boil into a vapor at a lower temperatures. The vapor must be condensed by cooling to recover the "distallate" product you are after. With heated distillation you will lose much of the vapor through before you can condense it if you have a leaky apparatus. This is especially true if the distillation occurs at high pressures. For vacuum distillation you may not be able to create enough vacuum to cause the liquid mixture to boil if there are any large leaks or you will waste a lot of power creating the needed vacuum pressure in a leaky distillation column.


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