Question

What are advantages of distillation?

It is an efficient method of water softening for smaller purposes.

It is relatively cheap.

It can also be reused.

Answer 1

the advantage is that the heating temperature is can be considerably lower than boiling point of the liquid at standard pressure and the distillate only has travel a short distance before condensing .
water softning in an effective method for reducing the calcium and the magnesium minerals ions from the water.
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