Chemistry: Post-Lab Questions

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III. Post-lab Questions 1. The initial liquid composition has a molar composition of 80% hexane and 20% pentane. This mixture boils at 59oC, producing the vapor above the second liquid, which has a molar composition of 35% hexane and 65%pentane. 2. The procedural error might have been due to the student not setting up the distillation apparatus correctly in par with the thermometer. The position of the thermometer might have caused that error as well. The top of the thermometer bulb might have been above the bottom of the side arm on the distilling head. 3. The flow rate of the gas and the column temperature influences how fast a compound will travel through the column; the faster the flow rate or the greater the temperature, the lower

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