Difference Between Methanol And Gas Chromatography

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Distillation is essential method for separating two organic compound to be purified easily in chemistry labs and industrial labs. Distillation depends on boiling points at which impurities get vaporized by pressure and it turns into liquid form. Gas chromatography(GC) method insure how well distillation was done. During GC, mixture pass through two different phases know as mobile phase and stationary phase. In this lab, a sample of methanol and 2-pentanol was used as impurities, which got separated by heating to obtain vapor form, afterwards cooling off vapor to get liquid form. Three different samples were collected at increasing temperature range, and gas chromatography was done. Three graph were found as result of gas chromatography which

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