distillation - 2023 Penn Bowl

Question

This process’s vacuum form is often used when the heat required by this process’s normal form would be impractically high or would cause the chemicals to decompose or undergo side reactions. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this process that separates compounds based on the difference in their boiling points, by heating them enough to boil the component with a lower boiling point but not the one with a higher boiling point.

ANSWER: distillation

[10m] This type of mixture cannot be separated by distillation, which may be solved by adding a material separation agent. For isopropanol and water, this mixture is 91% isopropanol by volume.

ANSWER: azeotrope

[10h] Vacuum distillation of air-sensitive substances often uses this apparatus containing a series of glass or Teflon taps, which is somewhat similar to a Schlenk line.

ANSWER: Perkin triangle

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Summary


2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)	10/21/2023	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)	10/21/2023	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo	10/28/2023	N	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU	10/28/2023	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)	10/28/2023	N	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)	10/28/2023	N	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)	10/28/2023	N	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC	10/28/2023	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Brown	MIT	10	10	0	20
Rutgers	Cornell B	10	10	0	20