Question

Acrylonitrile and ethyl acetate have the same boiling point: 77.2ºC. In one to two sentences, explain what outcome you would expect if a mixture of these two substances were distilled.

Answer 1

These two substances cannot be separated since they have the same boiling point. The way distillation works is that it would heat up the lowest boiling point first, then so on. Since they do have the same boiling point it would turn into would turn into vapor, so the way to separate it wouldn't be with distillation.

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