Distillation is a physical separation process that heats a mixture to produce vapors, separates those vapors, then condenses them back into liquids, allowing each component to be separately recovered in different fractions.

3. DISTILLATION
• Distillation is a physical separation based on
the vaporization of the different components
of the mixture to be separated. Typically, a
mixture is heated, vapors are produced,
separated, and then condensed back into a
liquid. As a result, each component can be
separately recuperated in different fractions.