Distillation Vs Toluene

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The results provide information that both simple and fractional distillation did separate toluene and cyclohexane but the experiment-lacked accuracy especially for fractional distillation, concluding that simple distillation did a better job. In simple distillation fraction 1 and 2 showed small indications of toluene that were distilled with cyclohexane but the results for fractional distillation indicated larger amounts of toluene presented then simple distillation did for fraction 1. While in the fourth fraction; simple and fractional distillation presented there was a larger percent of toluene; which is what should’ve been seen.

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