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Three alcohols - ethanol, propanol and butanol are mixed and heated for a long time in a beaker. Which is the last one to evaporate?

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Ethanol
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Propanol
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Butanol
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All evaporate at the same time
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Solution

The correct option is C Butanol
Ethanol - C2H5OH
Propanol - C3H7OH
Butanol - C4H9OH
The three alcohols form a homologous series. Molecular mass increases in any homologous series due to which a gradation of physical properties occurs. Boiling point is a physical property and so it increases in a homologous series. So the last one to evaporate will be butanol .

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