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Thank you STEAM DISTILATION /OPTICAL ROTATION Eugenol (clove oil) has a reported boiling point of 255 C at 760 mm Hg. Why would its boiling point during a steam distillation be less than 100C. Would you recommend steam distillation or simple distillation for the purification of Eugenol? Why? 2. A mixture of benzene and water distills at 83°C at 760mmHg. At 83°C the vapor pressure of water is 401mmHg 3, a. What is the mole % of the vapor during distillation? b. What is the weight of benzene that is distilled with each gram of water? 4. Calculate the specific rotation of a compound of molecular weight 150 gm/mole if a 1.0M solution in a 1 dm tube gives an observed rotation of 3.5

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Steam distillation is based on the principle that two immiscible liquids always boil at a lower temperature than the boiling point of the either pure components ,This is because the total vapour pressure of the mixture is sum of vapour pressures of the individual components . Hence during the isolation of eugenol by steam distillation water is one of the other components and eugenol being immiscible with water is isolated . Thus the product obtained by steam distillation is always obtained at a temperature which is always less than hundred degrees thereby avoiding decomposition of the product.

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