A student set up the following apparatus to separate ethanol and water. What was wrong with his arrangement?

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The figure shows the process of distillation which is used to seperate voltatile liquids like ethanol and water.Ethanol with low boiling point vapours first to form the liquid in reciever.so,the wrong with arrangment is it don't need triped stand or the china dish.

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