how to separate a mixture of alcohol and water?

Answer 1

Since alchohol evaporates at a lower temperature than water (172 degrees as compared with 212 degrees), theoretically you could heat the mixure, collect the condensation that forms, and what you would have left is the water. The condensation would be the alchohol.

Answer 2

1. Ok to get rid of the sand filter the mixture (filter paper, glass funnel etc). Your filtrate will now just contain water and alcohol. So the difference in these two liquids is boiling point (bp). bp H2O = 100 degrees C and alcohol is around 78 degrees C. Seperate the water and alcohol using a distillation set up. Collect the alcohol fraction at 78 degrees C (once at the bp the temperature should remain fairly constant untill all the alcohol has distilled off). As alcohol is flammble use an electric heating block, not a naked flame. 2. Iron flakes, sand sawdust are solids in the mixture so again collect by cold filtration. The salt will be in solution with the water. You have to collect this by crystallisation. Just boil the water off and condense and collect the vapour giving you pure water.

Answer 3

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1) First, use a sieve or filter to remove the sand from the mixture. Collect the water & alcohol mixture in a boiling flask, and distill as much of the alcohol as possible from the liquid (since most alcohols have a lower boiling point than water, they will come off first). Depending on exactly which alcohol you have in the mixture, you may need to do some further separation (by derivatizing the alcohol into something less soluble in water). 2) Run a strong magnet over the mixture to remove all the iron flakes. Take all the remaining mixture and mix it with a large quantity of water. The sawdust will float -- skim that off the top. Filter the salt water/sand mixture to remove the sand. Biol the remaining liquid to dryness to recover the salt.

Answer 4

Put it in the freezer. Since alcohol doesn't freeze and water does, pour the alcohol out after the water freezes.

Answer 5

It's impossible to distill pure alcohol, there will always be some water left in it. I would say that this task would not be worth your effort.

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Answer 7

water is heavier than alcohol. you can invert it into another container and in the process separate the mixture. unbelievable but possible!

Answer 8

alcohol vapourise @ 76 degree celsius & water @ 100.
it is done by distillation process:-
there r two method for it
1) pot still method
2) patent still method

Answer 9

You can either freeze or distill. Both are illegal in the U.S. unless you have the proper paperwork. Good luck trying to get it.

Answer 10

I heard alcohol burns.... y dont u burn the alcohol and u would be left with water....... i guess....