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title: "Purifying water by distillation Template | MolDraw"
url: https://www.moldraw.com/templates/setup-distil-salty-water/
description: "Purifying water by distillation template: GCSE / high school required practical: salty water boiled in a distillation flask on a tripod and gauze…"
lang: en
publisher: Scidart Academy
generated: 2026-10-28
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# Purifying water by distillation template

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GCSE / high school required practical: salty water boiled in a distillation flask on a tripod and gauze, thermometer at the side arm, Liebig condenser, distillate collected in a flask in an ice bath.

## What the template shows

- Boil salty water and condense the steam: the salt stays behind
- Water out
- Bulb level with the side arm: reads 100 °C while water distils
- Salty water
- Add anti-bumping granules; never boil dry
- Bunsen burner
- Liebig condenser
- Steam condenses on the cold inner tube
- Pure water: pH 7, and it leaves no solid when evaporated
- Ice bath
- Cools the receiver
- Reaction setup

Drawn with 23 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.

## Sources

- [Zubrick, The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual, 10th ed., Wiley 2016](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9781118875780) Textbook
- [Furniss et al., Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 5th ed., Longman 1989](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780582462366) Textbook

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### Can I edit the Purifying water by distillation template?

Yes. It opens as an ordinary MolDraw drawing, so every structure, arrow, label and colour can be changed, and you can add your own content around it.

### Is the chemistry checked?

Every structure is checked with RDKit and every curly arrow passes MolDraw’s electron-flow audit. The sources used are listed on this page.

### Can I edit the glassware?

Yes. Every piece of glassware is a MolDraw apparatus object: move, resize, recolour the liquid or swap a piece and the joints stay connected.

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