Today in my organic chemistry lab, we performed a distillation. During this process, I was mindful of the different phase changes that the substance went through. We were basically boiling the substance, collecting the vapor, and then condensing it. The substance had two different components in it, and this process separated them because they each had different boiling points, so they evaporate at different temperatures. Fun fact: it is through this distillation process that moonshine is made, and the way to separate all the components that make up crude oil.
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