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Ordinary distillation cannot separate Azeotrope.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was addressed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

I'd like to ask this question from Deviation from Idealities Concept in section Distillation of Mass Transfer

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The correct option is (a) True

To elaborate: For same vapour pressure (Azeotrope), it is not possible to separate by ordinary distillation for that we need azeotropic or extractive distillation.

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