CHEMISTRY GUIDE

This page explains how the fractional distillation (both in the lab and industrially) of an ideal mixture of liquids relates to their phase diagram. This is the second page in a sequence of three pages. Important:   If you have come straight to this page from a search engine and are looking for simple factual information about fractional distillation, this is probably not the page for you! It deals with the theory behind fractional distillation. Again, if you have come straight to this page, you won't make much sense of it unless you first read the page about phase diagrams for ideal mixtures . You will find a link at the bottom of that page which will bring you back here again. Using the phase diagram On the last page, we looked at how the phase diagram for an ideal mixture of two liquids was built up. I want to start by looking again at material from the last part of that page. The next diag...