Why can’t I distill liquor at home? (video) (IMAGE)

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Why can’t I distill liquor at home? (video)

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Distilling liquor might be a relatively simple process — heating a fermented liquid and keeping only the boiled alcohol — but it is dangerous and illegal without a license. To extract only alcohol from a mixture of many ingredients, scientists must explore boiling points and the intermolecular forces that shape them: https://youtu.be/a1IruS1bKN8.

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