5.1 Separations Part 2

Question 1

What is distillation?

Answer 1

process of raising the temperature of a liquid until it can overcome the intermolecular forces that hold it together in the liquid phase

Question 2

When is simple distillation performed?

Answer 2

when trace impurities need to be removed from a relatively pure compounds or when a mixture with significantly different boiling points needs to be separated

Question 3

When is fractional distillation performed?

Answer 3

when different boiling points of the components in a liquid mixture is not large