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Isolation of Nicotine from Tobacco 1. Why did you add 5 mL of 3 M NaOH...

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Isolation of Nicotine from Tobacco

1. Why did you add 5 mL of 3 M NaOH to the mixture prior to thesteam distillation?

2. How can you tell when steam distillation is complete when alarge quantity of an organic compound is steam distilled?

3. Is the nicotine you isolated pure? Provide experimentalevidence to support your answer.

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Ans1The addition 3M NaOH ensures thatall the nicotine present in tobacco sample is available as a freebase for distillation or extraction Because the Nicotine is havinga highly basic nitrogen    See Answer
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