When a distillation is performed, the product with the lower boiling point...?

Question

1. condenses in a flask, 2. becomes cloudy, 3. condenses in boiling flask, 4. becomes insoluble, and why?
Thank you so much.

Answer 1

1. Condenses

Boils and then can be lead off to another flask where it can condense.

The solution could become cloudy, but it doesn't have to.
The solution can't condense in the boiling flask, because there it is boiling and it CAN'T return to a liquid at that point.

As for the insolubility that can happen at any time with specific substances; however the process of distillation assumes that you are trying to get a soluble material out of the material in which it is suspended; so insoluble solutions rarely end up in a distillation process.

- Distillation is a chemical process where heat is applied to a mix of substances. When the boiling point is reached then the boiling substance leaves the mix and becomes airborne. In a alcohol distillery unit the liquid then passes down a coil to cool it so it can condense into the final flask. In the process of refining oil the various chemicals all have different boiling points or they can be adjusted when various catalysts are added. So at some point pure gasoline boils and is taken out to condense in another container. This is why oil refineries feature a large vertical cracking tower and a maze of pipes leading each chemical taken out of the mix to its own container.

Answer 2

This is a lame multiple choice, as many of them are, especially, I would guess, since Bush's "No child left a dime" campaign, but anyway, the "best" answer is 1 (condenses in a flask). The real answer is much more complex, because the two (or more, since no number of products was specified) "products" (of what?) may form a constant-boiling azeotrope and be inseparable by distillation beyond that point, plus the fact that even with fractional distillation, two compounds (whether they are "products" or not) that have boiling points within a "few" (say 20 or 50 or so) degrees of each other aren't likely to give clean distillations even after several repetitions.

Who makes up these questions???

Even the "best" answer is asinine, because the "product" or other compound condenses in the condenser and is collected in a flask! DUH!!!

Answer 3

The solution is boiled, and the vapours of the solvent rise into a seperate piece of apparatus(the Condenser),so the more volatile solution is collected first.The less volatile or that with the lower boiling point, stay, cool, condense, and are removed.