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Chemistry
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Mr. Saucedo
Name: ___________________________________
Period: ______
03. Get all of the liquid into the bottom of bulb #2. This might take some time
04. Once you get all the liquid in bulb #2, flip the device upside down so that bulb #1 is
on the bottom.
05. Carefully surround the bulb #1 with a cup of ice. Do not push it down into the ice!
06. Keep bulb #2 warm by placing your hands over the bulb.
Follow Up Questions and Observation:
How do your hands feel after holding onto bulb #2? Is this exothermic or endothermic?
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After a couple of minutes of warming bulb #2 with your hands, take a look at bulb #1
(the bulb placed in the ice). What substance starts to appear in the bottom of the bulb?
How can you tell?
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What happens to vapor when it is cooled down quickly by something like ice?
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Why do you think it is important to have one portion of the bulb in ice and the other
portion being warmed?
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In order to perform a distillation it is normally important that the two substances that you
are separating from each other have very large differences in boiling point and/or one of
them is highly volatile. Why do you think this is the case?
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Chemistry
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Mr. Saucedo