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The phrase "fractional distillation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the process of separating a mixture of liquids with different boiling points by heating it and collecting the individual components as they vaporize. It can be used in scientific or technical writing. Example: The chemist used fractional distillation to separate the mixture of ethanol and water into its individual components.
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fractional distillation
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A method of separating a mixture of liquids that have different boiling points
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These fractions are the origin of the term fractional distillation or fractionation.
Argon is isolated from air by fractionation, most commonly by cryogenic fractional distillation, a process that also produces purified nitrogen, oxygen, neon, krypton and xenon.
This article, the simple homegrown pot distillery was developed to increase the distilled ethanol concentration by mimic fractional distillation.
Image 3 depicts a simple continuous fractional distillation tower for separating a feed stream into two fractions, an overhead distillate product and a bottoms product.
Fractional distillation was employed to separate the FAME fraction (biodiesel) from the rest of the CTO components.
To obtain the narrow fractions of butane, light naphtha, heavy naphtha, kerosene, and gasoil, a fractional distillation system was simulated.
Fractional distillation?
Other fire-refining operations use fractional distillation.
They are purified by vacuum fractional distillation or by chromatography.
They often occur together and are separated by fractional distillation.
Argon is isolated on a large scale by the fractional distillation of liquid air.
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