What are distillation and evaporation most often used to separate in a science lab and why?

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Magnetic substances that have been mixed with substances that dissolve because the distillation machine is metal.
Magnetic substances that have been mixed with substances that dissolve because the distillation machine is metal.

Simple mixtures because the particles in mixtures are too small to separate by other means like filtering or your hands.
Simple mixtures because the particles in mixtures are too small to separate by other means like filtering or your hands.

Solutions because the particles in solutions are too small to separate by other means like filtering or your hands.
Solutions because the particles in solutions are too small to separate by other means like filtering or your hands.

Substances with high melting points because the distillation process creates high temperatures and can separate through melting.
Substances with high melting points because the distillation process creates high temperatures and can separate through melting.

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Distillation and evaporation are most often used to separate solutions because the particles in solutions are too small to separate by other means like filtering or your hands.

In a lab setting, distillation is particularly effective in separating liquid mixtures based on differences in boiling points, while evaporation is used to remove a solvent from a solution, leaving behind the solute. Both methods are valuable for purifying substances or recovering solvents in various chemical processes.