The Vespiary
The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: The_Duke_of_Kent on May 15, 2004, 03:49:00 AM
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Can anyone forsee a problem with separating nitroethane from a mixture with ethyl acetate (or formate) and methanol by fractional distillation? The boiling points are fairly different. I don't know how to estimate the BP of the azeotrope. Do I just collect the fraction coming over at the BP of nitroethane?
The composition is:
35 % nitroethane; 60 % ethyl acetate; 5 % methanol
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