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Which of these separation technique pairs is correctly matched?

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Crude oil is typically separated by fractional distillation due to the wide range of boiling points of its components.
  • Ortho and para nitrophenol: fractional distillation
  • Crude oil/petroleum: steam distillation
  • Cereal and amla: simple distillation
  • Crude oil/petroleum: fractional distillation
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The Correct Option is D

Solution and Explanation

Fractional distillation is the technique used when a mixture contains many components with boiling points close to one another, since a single simple distillation cannot resolve them cleanly. Crude oil (petroleum) is precisely this kind of complex hydrocarbon mixture, refined in fractionating columns. So the correctly matched pair is crude oil/petroleum with fractional distillation, option (D).
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