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| Solutions are mixtures of one or more substances dissolved in a liquid. On many occasions people want to separate these substances. Sometimes they simply want to obtain one pure substance, such as water. In this purification process, researchers or industrialists throw away the rest, which they consider impurities. Alternatively, sometimes they want to capture many components, one at a time. This happens in industrial distillation of oil. |
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