Modelling fractional distillation

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Jane R
Modelling fractional distillation
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Key stage
Category
Organic chemistry: Fuels and feedstocks
Resource type
Teaching ideas
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Starter/Plenary

This resource has two activities to help model fractional distillation to give students a greater understanding of the process. The first activity involves setting up space in the lab as a model fractionating column. There are a set of cards with different temperatures, names of fractions and the length of the carbon chains. 

The second activity involves students making paper chains to represent the different sized molecules. A pile of chains of different lengths represents crude oil. Teaching notes are included.

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