By mistake a student mixed acetone with alcohol. The alcohol and acetone may be separated by which of the following process?

Asked in Government Polytechnic Exam 2012 · Topic: Alcohol (Industrial Synthesis and Applications of Alcohols (Ethanol production, methanol toxicity, solvents, fuels))

1. Filtration
2. By separating funnel
3. By fractional crystallisation
4. By fractional distillation

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