1. By: Chanelle Grannum

2. Distillation is the process of heating a liquid until it boils, capturing and cooling the resultant hot vapors, and collecting the condensed vapors

3. Distillation is used to purify a compound by separating it from a non-volatile or less- volatile material

4. 40,000 distillation columns in the US, use approximately 24% of the energy consumed by the manufacturing sector.

5. About 95% of all separation processes used in industry is distillation.

6. It can be used to separate three liquid mixtures as well as two liquid mixtures.

7. Used when liquids break down at or close to their boiling points.

8. You have to distill alcohol to make it.

9. Distillation is also used to purify water to drink.

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