Question

when doing distillation, under what conditions would you want to have an ice bath around receiving flash where you collect the distillate?

Answer 1

• The distillation is used for the separation of two liquids by heating.
• The sample is taken in round bottom flask fitted with thermometer placed in ice bath.
• We can heat the flask slowly. The purified compound will boil and thus turn to vapours. These vapours are gone in to the receiver.
• Place boiling chips in flask due to prevent the super heating.
• All the liquid is vaporised we can reemove heat.
• Never heat closed system.
• Observe all joints are secured tightly.
• The distillate collect in receiver flask.