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What is an azeotrope?

What is an azeotrope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) 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.
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The hydrofluoric acid forms an azeotrope with water, and is distilled over steam.
This deviation can be caused by the formation of an azeotrope or a very stable hydrate.
When the vapour in equilibrium with a liquid mixture has a composition identical to that of the liquid, the mixture is called an azeotrope.
Water, ethanol, volatile organic acids, aldehydes, esters, acetals, and ketones, many of them powerfully aromatic, are among the azeotrope components in wines.
Except for R-436A and R-436B, others are either azeotrope or near-azeotropes.
Some cosolvents like iso-propanol can form an azeotrope with water to lower the mixtures total boiling point temperature and therefore evaporation of water is aided.

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