Which method is best suited for the separation of a mixture of acetone and water?

Vaporization

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Heating

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Evaporation

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Distillation

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Solution

The correct option is D
Distillation

The mixture of acetone and water is separated using distillation. These liquids have different boiling points. Also, these boiling points are far apart enough which is greater than $25^{o} C$ .

So they form vapours at different temperatures and then these vapours can be condensed separately to obtain pure liquids.

If the difference in boiling points is less than $25^{o} C$ , we would have to use fractional distillation.

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