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Question
Account for the following:
Ethers should not be distilled to dryness.
Answer in Brief
Solution
Ethers should never be distilled to dryness because heating them can result in the formation of peroxide, particularly near the end of a distillation when a great amount of heat is transferred through a diminishing volume of liquid.
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