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Title: The way of distillation. Introduction: In lab this week, a distillation experiment was performed to separate a substance containing two unknown miscible liquids. The purpose of this lab experiment is to showcase the efficiency of how different processes and techniques can be performed. The two techniques used in this experiment are distillation (simple/fractional) and boiling point determination. The importance of this lab experiment is crucial because these processes will be used in many other lab experiments to come. Table of Reagents: Compound Name Structure MW (g/mol) BP (Celsius) Density (g/mL at 25 degrees Celsius) Methanol 32.04 64.7 0.791 Ethanol 46.07 78.4 0.789 Water 18.02 100.0 1.000
Safety Information: This lab will involve working with boiling liquids and hot glassware. It is important to be cautious at all times. Never heat a closed vessel and always add a boiling chip to a liquid if being heated. It is important to wear safety goggles, gloves, and a lab coat at all times. The reagents used in this experiment, besides water are very flammable, so watch out for sparks, flames, and hot surfaces. The reagents are also toxic, so make sure not to breath any fumes. It is important to make sure the apparatus is fully cooled before taking it apart. Report to the TA immediately if any vapor or liquid exposure is consumed or spilled. All liquid waste should be disposed of in the appropriate labeled bottle in the fume hood. Compound Safety Information Methanol Acutely toxic Combustible and Flammable Harmful if swallowed, or breathed in. Make sure to wear safety goggles, lab gloves, and a lab coat to make certain that it doesn’t get onto skin or clothes. Ethanol Acutely toxic Combustible and Flammable Harmful if swallowed or breathed in. Make sure to wear safety goggles, lab gloves, and a lab coat to make certain
that it doesn’t get onto skin or clothes. Experimental Procedure: Simple Distillation: First, 21 mL of the solution will be placed into a 50 mL round bottom flask with several boiling chips. Put together the simple distillation apparatus and begin to boil the solution. Use the Variac voltage controller that is attached to the heating mantle to regulate the heating of the distillation flask so that only approximately 1-2 mL of distillate is collected per minute. Make sure to not speed up the distillation by turning the heat up as it will cause inadequate separation and will take longer for separation to occur. As the solution starts to boil, the vapor will move into the still head and then into the condenser and finally into the catch flask/cylinder. Make sure to record the temperature of when the first drop of distillate was collected and then the temperature of each milliliter collected throughout the course of the experiment. It is not required to collect all 21 mL of solution, because this would result in a dry boiling flask and that shouldn’t happen. Instead, only collect 18 mL of distillate (19 data points) and then remove the boiling flask from the heating mantle to start cooling the apparatus to room temperature.
Make sure to completely cool glassware before dismantling the system and avoid methanol vapors as they are toxic. Fractional Distillation: First, 21 mL of the solution will be placed into a 50 mL round bottom flask with several boiling chips. Put together the fractional distillation apparatus and begin to boil the solution. The main difference between the simple distillation apparatus and the fractional distillation apparatus is that the fractional distillation apparatus has a fractioning column packed with steel wool which is placed in between the distillation head and the boiling flask. Wrap this column in tin foil to avoid excessive heat loss as the vapor travels into the distillation head. Use the Variac voltage controller that is attached to the heating mantle to regulate the heating of the distillation flask so that only approximately 1-2 mL of distillate is collected per minute. Just as with the simple distillation, It is not required to collect all 21 mL of solution, because this would result in a dry boiling flask and that shouldn’t happen. Instead, only collect 18 mL of distillate (19 data points) and then remove the boiling flask from the heating mantle to start cooling the apparatus to room temperature. Make sure to completely cool glassware before dismantling the system and avoid methanol vapors as they are toxic.
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