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Difference Between Distillation And Toluene
For a perfect distillation, the temperature distillation will rise to the boiling point (80.7oC) of the cyclohexane, and remain constant while cyclohexane is distilling. Eventually, the distillation rate of cyclohexane will decrease, and the temperature will rapidly rise to toward the boiling point (110.6oC) of toluene. At this point, the temperature will remain the same while toluene is distilling. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior is not common in a laboratory experiment and it would work only for compounds with a temperature difference of 100 degree Celsius or more.

In our simple distillation graph, we can observe that temperature distillation raise more than the boiling point of cyclohexane. Also, we can note that the temperature continued

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