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How can ethanol and water be separated?

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Distillation and evaporation. You can learn how to distill by reading up on alcohol production.

Distilling allows the water and ethanol to boil. Ethanol is alcohol and evaporates quicker than H20. It is actually a very simple process.

But to get the last % or so of water out of ethanol is extremely difficult.

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