One can prepare homemade lavender perfume by steamdistillation,one of the main components in the lavender oil islinalyl acetare (MM 196 g/mol), which has a vapor pressure of 20 mmHg at the boiling point of the mixture with water. If one collect500 g of lavender from a garden and performs a codistillation withwater, what would be the compositions of the distillate?
What does it mean by the \"composition\" of the distillate? Also,how do you figure out how much water was used to run thisexperiment?
