Question

A mixture of acetone and benzene can be sepreted by the following method

Answer 1

Answer:

Acetone cannot be easily separated from benzene in high purity by distillation because of the closeness of their vapor pressures. Acetone can be readily removed from benzene by azeotropic distillation using certain aromatic hydrocarbons. Typical effective azeotropic distillation agents are: toluene, ethyl benzene and mesitylene.

Explanation:

The mixture of benzene and acetone cannot be separated by using any other distillation methods because of their similarities in boiling points. If distillation is used then the mixturestarts to boil as a whole that is behaves like a single component thereby making it highly impossible to separat