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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Entrainers that produce azeotropes (“AY-zee-oh-tropes”) with this property can be easily removed because they uniquely cross residue curve separatrices (“SEP-uh-RAY-triss-iz”). The condensation of a product with this property is essential to the function of a Dean–Stark apparatus, which is why it cannot be used to distill (10[1])ethanol. Binary azeotropes with this property are guaranteed to be minimum-boiling. Materials with low melting points and this property will form slag during smelting. Systems with this property will spontaneously decompose because they lie inside a namesake (-5[1])“gap” bounded by the spinodal (“spy-NODE-al”) curve. (-5[3])Systems with this property can be separated (10[1])by decanting, (10[1])which is used to isolate (10[2])organics from the aqueous phase after (10[2])extraction. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this (10[1])property of mixtures (10[2]-5[1])that cannot (10[2])form a single continuous phase. (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[6])

ANSWER: immiscible (“im-MISS-ible”) [or immiscibility; accept biphasic, multiphasic, phase separable, or descriptions of two or more phases until “aqueous” is read; accept heterogeneous azeotropes or heteroazeotropes until “gap” is read and prompt afterwards; prompt on mutually insoluble or not (mutually) soluble; prompt on separable or disperse or colloidal] (Heterogeneous azeotropes are immiscible; additionally, each phase boils to a different product.)
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