By using the techniques of simple distillation and gas chromatography to purify and determine relative proportions of volatile compounds in their gas form. Distillation could be described as a process where a mixture was heated until it began to boil, and the condensed vapor was collected. After completing the distillation process, the gas chromatography method could be used to identify the relative components of a compound in a volatile mixture. According to the analysis between the hexane-octane mixture performed in the lab and the hexane-heptane mixture performed by Frederica Shih, one can espy that the heptane mixture can be separated more easily than the octane mixture. This can be proven by comparing the percent areas of the substituents.
