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Acetic acid or vinegar boils sooner than water if you had a mixture of acetic acid and water you could separate it by

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Acetic acid and water mixture is called zeotropic mixture - wherein the chemicals don't have the same vapor phase and liquid phase composition. It can be separated by distillation and by adding ethyl acetate as an entrainer.
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