Chemistry GCSE
Evaporation and condensation
What Evaporation and condensation means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Evaporation and condensation
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Crude oil is heated so that hydrocarbons evaporate and rise as vapours, and a vapour condenses when it reaches a level where the temperature is below its boiling point.
Topics that use Evaporation and condensation
- Fractional distillation and petrochemicals (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Alkenes
- Boiling point and molecular size
- Catenation and structural variety in carbon compounds
- Cracking
- Finite resources
- Fraction
- Fractional distillation
- Homologous series and general formulae
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