Chemistry A-Level
Distillation
What Distillation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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A technique in which the vapour of the lower-boiling component leaves the flask, condenses and is collected, separating a product from the reaction mixture by boiling point.
Technique that purifies by collecting a fraction boiling over a narrow range.
Topics that use Distillation
- Alcohols, haloalkanes and analysis - 4.2.3 Organic synthesis (OCR A-Level)
- Nitrogen compounds, polymers and synthesis - 6.2.5 Organic synthesis (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Heating under reflux
- Alcohol versus phenol discrimination
- Aldehyde versus ketone discrimination
- Basicity of amines
- Carbonyl group distinction
- Comparison with literature data
- Density and layer order
- Distillation apparatus
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