Re: [Phys-l] dirty water

["Marc \"Zeke\" Kossover" <zeke_kossover@yahoo.com>]

--- Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:

> Steam escaping from a beaker with boiling dirty water is
> supposed to be 
> essentially H2O vapor. But is it really so? What about a
> possibility 
> that escaping bubbles create tiny droplets of dirty water
> and rising 
> steam is mixed with them? Please share what you think or
> what you know. 
> References would be appreciated.

No references, but through experience, one can get lots of
other stuff, especially volatiles. Unless you are very
careful, you will distill alcohol, acetic acid, ammonia,
and lots of other compounds (some that don't begin with an
"A"). Traps can help capture some dense solids. 

Marc "Zeke" Kossover







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