Distilling liquor might be a relatively simple process - heating a fermented liquid and keeping only the boiled alcohol - but it is dangerous and illegal without a license. To extract only alcohol from a mixture of many ingredients, scientists must explore boiling points and the intermolecular forces that shape them: https://youtu.be/a1IruS1bKN8.
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