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Purification methods: crystallisation, distillation, chromatography

Why this is asked: Steam distillation only works for a substance that's virtually insoluble in water and has some vapour pressure at 373 K — it lets something like aniline distil below its own, much higher, boiling point instead of decomposing there. In chromatography, Rf is the distance moved by the compound divided by the distance moved by the solvent front, always less than 1 — a value NEET expects you to compute, not just define.

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