Assemble a simple distillation apparatus as shown in Figure 3, using a 50 mL round‐bottom
flask as the pot and a 25 mL graduated cylinder as the receiver.
2) Place a few boiling chips into the pot.
3) Add 15 mL of cyclohexane and 15 mL of toluene into the pot using a glass funnel, taking
care not to spill the chemicals onto the flask heater.
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4) Start the flow of water through the condenser. Ask for approval from your instructor before
proceeding to the next step.
5) Heat the mixture to boiling. Adjust the heater to produce distillate at a rate of about 1‐2
drops per 1 second.
6) Record the temperature when you collect the first drop of distillate and again after every 1
mL of distillate. Continue the distillation until the temperature reaches 110 °C or until fewer
than 5 mL of liquid remains in the pot.
7) Turn off the heater and lower it from the pot. Allow the pot to cool for a few minutes. Then
turn off the water to the condenser.
8) Make a plot between the temperature (Y axis) and the volume of the distillate (X axis)