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Message no. 1
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:44:15 +0200
According to *Hermetic Mage Extraorinar*, at 14:56 on 30 Mar 99, the word on
the street was...

> >>Multi-alkyl-sybstituted amine purification via fractional
> distillation!<<
> <Michael Orion Jackson>
>
> Seeing as I'm just an Art Major and have no idea what this is I'll just
> guess.
>
> Is it a water purification thingy [real technical word there :)] that
> removes alkylines by seperating that molecules.....

Fractional distillation is where you gradually heat a liquid that consists
of more than one substance. The different substances will boil at
different temperatures, and so you can "collect" each of them separately.
An example would be a mixture of alcohol and water -- the alcohol boils at
78 degrees while water boils at 100 degrees; once the temperature of the
liquid reaches 78 degrees the alcohol will boil and be released from the
mixture, while the water remains liquid until the temperature rises to 100
degrees.

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Message no. 2
From: Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:40:17 -0600
> >>Multi-alkyl-substituted amine purification via fractional
> distillation!<<

Fractional distillation is where you gradually heat a liquid that consists
of more than one substance.
An example would be a mixture of alcohol and water
++++++++++++

Yes, but he was talking about "multi-alkyl-substituted amine
purification", not water distillation (or making moonshine in a still). I
must admit, I can't come up with any multi-alkyl-substituted amines off
the top of my head.
If fractional distillation is gradual distillation by partial boiling
point, what is the process whereby you put filter paper into a solution
and let capillary action carry the lighter molecules to the top called? I
don't think it has any commercial applications, but we were taught this
method in chem. 101.

Mongoose
Message no. 3
From: A Halliwell u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:31:17 +0100 (BST)
| If fractional distillation is gradual distillation by partial boiling
|point, what is the process whereby you put filter paper into a solution
|and let capillary action carry the lighter molecules to the top called? I
|don't think it has any commercial applications, but we were taught this
|method in chem. 101.

I think that's Chromatography.
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Message no. 4
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:11:45 +0200
According to Mongoose, at 10:40 on 31 Mar 99, the word on
the street was...

> Yes, but he was talking about "multi-alkyl-substituted amine
> purification", not water distillation (or making moonshine in a still). I
> must admit, I can't come up with any multi-alkyl-substituted amines off
> the top of my head.

Does that matter? AFAIK the principle behind fractional distillation is
the same regardless of what liquids are involved.

> If fractional distillation is gradual distillation by partial boiling
> point, what is the process whereby you put filter paper into a solution
> and let capillary action carry the lighter molecules to the top called? I
> don't think it has any commercial applications, but we were taught this
> method in chem. 101.

That would be some kind of chromatography, IIRC. I'm not sure about the
name of this particular type of chromatography, though. (It's been around
5 years since I had anything to do with this, so I may be off a bit).

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Message no. 5
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:19:59 EST
In a message dated 3/31/1999 12:11:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
gurth@******.nl writes:

> > Yes, but he was talking about "multi-alkyl-substituted amine
> > purification", not water distillation (or making moonshine in a still).
I
> > must admit, I can't come up with any multi-alkyl-substituted amines off
> > the top of my head.
>
> Does that matter? AFAIK the principle behind fractional distillation is
> the same regardless of what liquids are involved.

Actually, I thought that Oils were treated different than Alkalines.

-K
Message no. 6
From: Anders Swenson anders@**********.com
Subject: [OT] Science-talk
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:37:46 -0800
Subject: Re: [OT] Science-talk


>
...

what is the process whereby you put filter paper into a solution
>and let capillary action carry the lighter molecules to the top called? I
>don't think it has any commercial applications, but we were taught this
>method in chem. 101.
>
>Mongoose


It's called chromatography, it's a standard analysis method, and it's almost
certainly part of a commercial process somewhere. --Anders

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