Complex sentence: Extractive distillation is similar to azeotropic distillation, except in this case the entrainer is less volatile than any of the azeotrope's constituents.F example, the azeotrope of 20% acetone with 80% chloroform can be broken by adding water and distilling the result.
Split into simpler sentences: Extractive distillation is similar to azeotropic distillation, except in this case the entrainer is less volatile than any of the azeotrope's constituents. For example, the azeotrope of 20% acetone with 80% chloroform can be broken by adding water and distilling the result.