Components of a binary mixture of two liquids A and B were being separated by distillation. After some time separation of components stopped and composition of vapour phase became the same as that of the liquid phase. Both the components started coming in the distillate. Explain why this happened.

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Because both components exist in the distillate and the liquid and vapour compositions are the same, this indicates that the liquids have formed an azeotropic combination that cannot be separated at this stage by fractional distillation.

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