Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Fractional distillation works because the different liquids have different boiling points. When the mixture is heated: vapours rise through a column which is ...

Creating high-quality cannabis extracts and isolates requires a great amount of care on the part of the product manufacturer. Although extraction and purification processes used in other industries ...

ASTM D2887 is one of the most common SimDis methods, focusing on petroleum fractions with a final boiling point of 538 o C (1000 o F) or lower. Samples analyzed using this method must have a boiling ...

In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional ...

An evening of gin tasting and discussion about the history of gin, methods of making gins and some of the background science, will be held on Thursday 7th July at the University of Southampton, ...