How do you separture a mixture of alchol and water using distillation?
look at the diagram & explanation @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilling you raise the temp of the mix the lower boiling boils off first, you cool the fumes comming off the fumes condense & you collect them as 95% pure alcohol liquid alcohol boils off an what is called an azetrope 95% alcohol/5% H2O (“An azeotrope is a mixture of two or more liquids in such a ratio that its composition cannot be changed by simple distillation.This occurs because, when an azeotrope is boiled, the resulting vapor has the same ratio of constituents as the original mixture.” wikipedia) ” 95.6% ethanol and 4.4% water (by weight):Ethanol boils at 78.4°C, water boils at 100°C, but the azeotrope boils at 78.
