Help a noob out please. Ethanol distillation is pulling over to receiving flask

Maybe read the whole thread.

Yeah, you don’t have a rotovap (I read that). Doesn’t mean knowing how to control one wouldn’t have helped here…

There is also the issue of solvent in your pump oil. Not good for you or the pump.

They don’t always become vengeful flame spitting creatures when you feed them nothing but ethanol, but it has certainly be documented.

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