Question

How would you separate benzene (b.p. ${80}^{\circ }C$) from toluene (methyl-benzene (b.p. ${111}^{\circ }C$) with which it is miscible)?

Answer 1

Fractional distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions, such as in separating chemical compounds by their boiling point by heating them to a temperature at which one or more fractions of the compound will vaporize. This is used to separate these two compounds.