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How can we seperate Acetone & water?
Distillation is separation technique that takes advantage of the large difference of the boiling points between two (or more) substances.

Acetone boils at 56.5 °C, while water boils at 100 °C. This difference is quite large (many times you may need to work with a smaller difference, where contamination is quite a possibility) The distillation apparatus is set up; after some boiling, the acetone should evaporate, and then condense into a separate flask while the water remains in the bottom flask.


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