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What is the name of the apparatus used to convert vapor into liquid during distillation?
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A condenser.
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Jesufemi Adesunloye
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How would you adapt the apparatus so that a flammable liquid be purified?
a water bath is then needed during distillation
How do you convert air to liquid oxygen?
By a processc called fractional distillation.
Is there two changes of state in distillation?
The changes of state that happen during distillation are: Liquid to a gas and gas to a liquid
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 problem with using a simple distillation apparatus a glass tube?
The problem with distillation is how to turn all of the hot vapour back into liquid. A simple distillation experiment using just a glass tube as a condenser, rather than a Liebig one, loses most of the steam.
Why does nitrogen boils first during fractional distillation of liquid air?
Oxygen is the first to boil.
What equipment is used in distillation?
The most important components of a laboratory distillation installation are: - source of heat - refrigerant (condenser) - a recipient for the liquid to be distilled - a recipient for the collected liquid after distillation - glass tubes for connections - thermometer
Which liquid would be the first to be collected in the fractional distillation?
fractional distillation this is a liquid with the lowest boiling point
What is a liquid-liquid solution that can be separated by distillation?
A liquid-liquid solution that can be separated by distillation would be alcohol and water. Water will boil at a higher temperature allowing separation.
In distillation a liquid and then condenses?
correct! distillation is the prosses of evaporating a liquid to purify it then recondence it back to a liquid. This prosses can be used for removing salt from water.
How fractional distillation is used?
Fractional distillation is used to separe the components of a liquid.
How do you separate a liquid dissolved in a liquid?
The separation is made by distillation.
