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Distillation
Get pure water out of a coloured salt solution.
Topic: Classifying materialsGrade: 9Free
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What you do
- Heat the flask.
- Watch the thermometer at 100 °C and the first drops in the receiver (×5).
- Collect 10 mL. Why is the distillate colourless while the flask gets darker blue?
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