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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what can be hypothesized for a steam distillation of an essential oil?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Honestly, Im not entirely sure what hypothesis i could make for this experiment

OpenStudy (aaronq):

hm what other components are present along with the essential oil?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@aaronq well for this experiment we were asked to distill an essential oil (or terpene), and then extract the terpene, and perform a TLC analysis on the recovered product and starting oil

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I had chosen lemongrass oil. No other compounds were used. except the solvents used for the TLC analysis and extraction.

OpenStudy (abb0t):

Your hypothesis will be that they will separate. Since, that is the point of distillation.

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