Separating Liquids by Boiling Point

Fractional distillation separates liquid mixtures by using differences in boiling point. Chemists use this lab technique to purify organic liquids. When a mixture is carefully distilled, compounds with different boiling points split into individual parts.

There are two main types of distillation:...

Distillation is one of the most commonly used techniques for purifying liquids in laboratory settings and accounts for up to 95% of all industrial separation processes.

This method separates and purifies liquids based on their volatility, or the tendency for its molecules to escape from the liquid phase as gaseous vapor. To distill a solut...