[CH] Boiling and evaporation

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DWALLS9102@aol.com wrote:

>>If I got some salt water and boiled it, would the water vapor take the salt away with it too? No, it wouldn't. The salt would stay behind. Eventually you would have nothing left but salt, unless salt (sodium chloride(NaCl)) boiled at or below 100 deg. C.<<

Disclaimer: I'm not a chemist, nor do I play one on TV.

 Go boil some very salty water in a pot with a lid.
Allow some of the steam to condense on the lid.
Taste the condensed liquid.

I suspect it would be the same with capsaicin.


Pam

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