Low boilers

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Low boilers in a separating column

A low boiler is the component in a mixture of chemical substances whose vapor pressure is higher and whose boiling temperature is lower than that of the other components.

The term is important in rectification and distillation . The low boiler is the component that can be drawn off at the top of the column . Low boilers are often also referred to as volatile compounds . The counterpart to the low boiler is the high boiler .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Nitsche: Column primer: For practice in chemical plant construction . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-41919-5 , pp. 174 ( limited preview in Google Book search).