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The coma chemistry model uses the Knudsen layer to describe regions near the site of this process. The optimal setup parameters of two chambers of a device that promotes this process are described by the rule of 20. Catastrophic BLEVEs (“B-L-E-V-E’s”) can occur when a large amount of material undergoes this process at once during an adiabatic flash. An empirical rule describing this process states that its entropy is roughly 10.5 times the ideal gas constant. Energetic forms of this process can be stabilized by adding bumping chips (10[1])to a sample. This process can be encouraged by spinning samples in a vacuum through a heat (10[1])bath in rotovaps. For 10 points, name this phase transition (10[1])that occurs at different temperatures for each component of a mixture during (10[1])distillation. ■END■

ANSWER: vaporization [accept evaporation; accept boiling; accept rotary evaporation; accept using a rotovap; accept liquid to gas transition; prompt on distillation until read by asking “what phase transition is occurring during distillation?”; prompt on solvent removal or sample concentration by asking “what process is being used for that?”]
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