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1. Besides esters, essential oils may be a complex mixture of components that us

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Question

1. Besides esters, essential oils may be a complex mixture of components that usually belong to one of two groups of natural products. What are these two groups? (2 pts) and 2. The spice you will be using in this experiment is will be isolating is mainly the compound: and the essential oil you dehyde w stacet? 4. The extraction solvent used in this experiment is M2 cl2 . The drying agent is 5. What property does an essential oil possess which allows us to extract it using steam distillation? e essential od is an be .quuct and Steam disketion toRovide one of the mise ble prose Phase 6. What will happen if you grind the spice too finely or heat the distillation apparatus too rapidly 7. What is the advantage of using steam distillation instead of a traditional distillation to extract an essential oil?

Explanation / Answer

Ans 1 : Alcohols and ketones

Essential oils have two distinct groups , hydrocarbons and oxygenated compounds.

The oxygenated compounds mainly include esters , alcohols , ketones , phenols etc.