Simple distillation
What Simple distillation means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Heating a solution to evaporate the solvent, then condensing the vapour to collect the pure solvent.
Separates a solvent from a solution by evaporating and condensing it.
Topics that use Simple distillation
- Mixtures (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Chemical versus physical properties
- Chromatography
- Conservation of chemical identity in mixtures
- Contrast between mixtures and compounds
- Crystallisation
- Evidence for no new substance
- Evidence from characteristic reactions and tests
- Filtration
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