what is a distillation process?

Answer 1

It's used in lots of things, including making drinks like gin, whisky, brandy and vodka.

The idea is to only select (or cut) the products (or distillates) you want from the original brew. Mostly this will be the alcohol of course. Ethanol boils at 80 Celsius. So you heat your mixture in a still, and let the early volatiles escape. Once the mix hits 80C, you start collecting the steam, and condense it back in to liquid by passing it through a pipe surrounded by cold water. By controlling the heat you keep the temperature constant until you have collected all the alcohol. The temperature will then rise, and release other distillates which you may not want, so those are allowed to escape.

Voila, you have almost pure alchol.

DON'T TRY IT AT HOME IT CAN BE DANGEROUS IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING

Answer 2

typically used to treat water and obtain pure H2O, the water (tap water) full of contaminants like treatment chemicals, minerals, and certain bacteria, is heated to boil off. The hot steam rises and passes into a condenser chamber, which is just a cooling process, picture the outer sides of a cold drinking glass, or your car on a cold morning. The steam is condensed back into water, which is now assumed to be pure H2O. This is what you can buy as distilled water at the store.

Answer 3

This is a process which removes specific chemicals from a mixture by evaporating the desired chemicals by controlling temperature and pressure.

Oil refining is a distillation by distilling crude into different petrochemicals (i.e gasoline, butane, deisel ...)

Spirits such run and vodka are also distillates.

Here is a link:
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/science10/unita/redon18.html

Answer 4

It is a process used for separation of a different vaporization points materials.

Answer 5

Hi. Evaporating a liquid to purify it. Solids get left behind.

Answer 6

If I can remember...

Nevermind.. I'm thinking of evaporation.