This document discusses distillation and fractional distillation processes. Distillation separates mixtures where one component is volatile and the other is not, such as removing salts from drinking water. Fractional distillation separates components with small boiling point differences, like the hydrocarbons in crude oil, by condensing fractions of different boiling points. The key difference between distillation and fractional distillation is that distillation separates components with large boiling point differences, while fractional distillation is used for components with small boiling point differences.