Questions 1) Why should the distillation apparatus have an opening to the atmosphere at the end? 2) Why the water through the condenser to be introduced is from down to up but not the opposite direction? 3) What is the boiling point? 4) Try to describe the characteristics of simple distillation and fractionation distillation separately.
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