The purpose of this experiment was to separate two liquids using Simple and Fractional Distillations. Distillation separates the components of a liquid mixture by their differences in volatility: the component with the higher vapor pressure (lower boiling point) evaporates more readily, so the vapor, and the distillate condensed from it, is enriched in that component. Those volatility differences arise from differences in the chemicals’ intermolecular forces. Reagents in the Experiment: Cyclohexane Toluene […]
