Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.
Wiktionary
- n. A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.
Etymologies
- a-1 + Greek zein, to boil; see zeolite + Greek -tropos, turning; see -tropous.
Examples
“Ethanol and water at the 96/4 proportions form an azeotrope, which is a mixture of stuff that boils in the same proportions as it is in liquid form.”
“Things like methylene chloride being rather more weirdly polar as a solvent than you'd expect, or the fact that some amines will stick to solid magnesium sulfate drying agent (but not sodium sulfate), or how you can azeotrope out acetic acid with toluene, or how you want palladium tetrakis to be lemon yellow and not orange”
“Water and ethanol form an azeotrope - a mixture whose composition can't be changed by distillation - at a ratio of 95.6: 4.4 ethanol: water.”
“For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.”
“You have to work hard to break up the ethanol and water azeotrope, and if you do, you’ve probably wasted your time, because exposure to air will allow the ethanol to absorb enough water to form the azeotrope again.”
“a Sum of distillation to azeotrope and azeotropic distillation”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘azeotrope’.
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holy
The inner or western division of the Jewish tabernacle, as distinguished from the outer part, called the holy place. The holy of holies was inclosed on three sides by the walls of the tabernacle, w...
qodesh, hagiasmos, kyaptsitiwqa, separation, separation together, pure gift, purée, hlutor, putah, puréeing, collin, intemerated and 20 more...
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Scopes, tropes, and graphs
vitropticon, zinematograph, vitrescope, venetrope, phenakistoscope, thromotrope, xograph, centograph, hypnoscope, cinnomonograph, cinograph, variscope and 38 more...
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Tropes
trope, tropes, heliotrope, tightrope, footrope, Saint-Tropez, retroperitoneal, allotrope, dextropedal, azeotrope, neutropenia, chromatrope and 27 more...
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moving constants
insteadfast, assid tests, isentropic, swerveless, scedastic, stableful, fixure, compoise, still, withoutcessant, Cassini ovals, conchoid and 53 more...
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