Combined Science GCSE
Simple distillation
What Simple distillation means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Simple distillation
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Reference: AQA
Evaporating a solvent by heating, condensing the vapour, and collecting the distillate while the dissolved solute remains.
Topics that use Simple distillation
- Mixtures (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Chromatography
- Crystallisation
- filtration
- Justifying practical choices from data
- Mixture
- Mixtures and purity
- Physical changes
- Properties of substances
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