Extractive distillation

Extractive distillation is when you mix two liquids together and heat them up in a big pot to make them boil. While they're boiling, you add another special liquid that helps separate the two original liquids. It's like when you mix water and oil together, but then you add soap to make the oil separate from the water.

The special liquid that you add is called a solvent. The solvent likes one of the original liquids more than the other, so it attaches to it and helps pull it away from the other liquid. This is kind of like how magnets attract metal.

Once the solvent has pulled one of the liquids away, you can collect it separately from the other liquid. This is useful when you want to make something pure, like getting pure alcohol from a mix of alcohol and water.

So, extractive distillation is like making a big soup where you use a special spoon to separate out the things you want, so you can have nice clean ingredients to use for cooking or making other things!