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A laboratory fractionating column is a piece of glassware used to separate vaporized mixtures of liquid compounds with close... Image 3 depicts an industrial fractionating column separating a feed stream into one distillate fraction and one bottoms fraction... that returns to the upper part of the fractionating column as shown in Image 3... The design and operation of a fractionating column depends on the composition of the feed and as well as the composition of the... a fractionating column almost always needs more actual...

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