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To separate components from a mixture of liquids, the liquid can be heated to force components, which have different boiling points, into the gas phase “https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-distillation-601964”. The wash is poured into a still usually made of copper and heated using steam. The wash consists of many chemicals, malted barley, alcohol, water, and sugar. The alcohol along with some chemicals needs to be separated “https://www.bostonapothecary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-application-of-chemistry-to-pot-still-distillation1.pdf”. By using steam to heat the still alcohol and some volatile chemicals are evaporated first. As the gas travels upwards it is directed sent into another tube where cold water is constantly flowing around the tube. After the gas travels through the cold tube the gas is condensed back into a liquid and collected in a separate vessel. Depending on how the wash is turned in the still different chemicals are evaporated “https://www.bostonapothecary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-application-of-chemistry-to-pot-still-distillation1.pdf”. A rummerger is used to constantly stir the wash to prevent burning of solid particles. After the first wash there is still 6-7% solids from the barley in the wash “https://www.whisky.com/information/knowledge/production/details/the-scottish-pot-stills.html”. During the heating process kinetic energy increases (molecules move faster) until they start to change phases. Then entropy increases from the phase change. In the cooling pipe kinetic energy and entropy both decrease resulting in another phase change from gas to liquid. In this process, not all of the solids are removed and some make it through the first distillation process “https://www.bostonapothecary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-application-of-chemistry-to-pot-still-distillation1.pdf”. This is why whiskeys are distilled three times to reduce the solid content.

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