Read the passage given below and answer the following question: Distillation is the technique in which a liquid sample of two or miscible liquids is volatilized to produce a vapor that is then, condensed to a liquid richer in the more volatile components of the sample. A simple distillation is used if the components have large difference in boiling points. But simple distillation is not able to separate liquid mixture of the boiling points of the components are too close. Therefore, a modified setup is used for separation which is known as fractional distillation. Each gas has its own boiling point, defined as the temperature at which it converts from a liquid into a gas. We can separate the components of air by gradually cooling the sample until each component gas liquifies. The process is known as the fractional distillation of liquid air. Which of the following mixtures can be separated by simple distillation? answer in one word
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process that is used in the purification of a large variety of materials. However, before we begin a discussion of distillation, it would probably be beneficial to define the terms that describe the process and related properties. Many of these are terms that you are familiar with but the exact definitions may not be known to you. Let us begin by describing the process by which a substance is transformed from the condensed phase to the gas phase. For a liquid, this process is called vaporization and for a solid it is called sublimation. Both processes require heat. This is why even on a hot day at the beach, if there is a strong breeze blowing, it may feel cool or cold after you come out of the water. The wind facilitates the evaporation process and you supply some of the heat that is required. All substances regardless of whether they are liquids or solids are characterized by a vapor pressure. The vapor pressure of a pure substance is the pressure exerted by the substance against the external pressure which is usually atmospheric pressure. Vapor pressure is a measure of the tendency of a condensed substance to escape the condensed phase. The larger the vapor pressure, the greater the tendency to escape. When the vapor pressure of a liquid substance reaches the external pressure, the substance is observed to boil. If the external pressure is atmospheric pressure, the temperature at which a pure substance boils is called the normal boiling point. Solid substances are not characterized by a similar phenomena as boiling. They simply vaporize directly into the atmosphere. Many of you may have noticed that even on a day in which the temperature stays below freezing, the volume of snow and ice will appear to decrease, particularly from dark pavements on the streets. This is a consequence of the process of sublimation. Both vaporization and sublimation are processes that can be used to purify compounds. In order to understand how to take advantage of these processes in purifying organic materials, we first need to learn how pure compounds behave when they are vaporized or sublimed.