The two solvents in the unknown were correctly identified as acetone and toluene. The solvent with the lower boiling point was predicted to be acetone, as its boiling point was observed to be around 59 C, which was closest to the 56.5 C, the ideal boiling point of acetone. This result, however, had the possibility of being incorrect, since the boiling point of methanol, 64.7 C, was relatively close enough to the observed 59 C that methanol could have been incorrectly identified due to experimental errors such as turning the hot plate up too high. A similar situation could have occurred with toluene, the higher boiling point solvent, but this was less likely since there were no possible solvents that had a boiling point that close to toluene. The chromatogram confirmed the identity of the lower boiling point solvent as acetone, and the higher boiling point solvent as toluene. The unknowns were correctly identified due to the clear presence of two plateaus in the experimental data. The hot plate was not turned on too high or too low to not obtain one of the three samples, and a sufficient number of values were taken in each part of the distillation before the mixture evaporated away to obtain approximately accurate data for boiling points.
The ratio calculated for the volume of solvents in the mixture was .506/.488, where the composition of the mixture was 50.6% acetone, and 48.8% toluene. These two values did not add up to 100% because the GC also recorded some impurities,