If heat is supplied to the still pot too rapidly, the ability to separate two liquids by fractional distillation may be drastically reduced. In terms of the theory of distillation presented in the discussion, explain why this is so.

alchemy hadn't scientific methods of study, appeal to mysticism and fantasy, the knowledge of chemistry and physics were modest at that time.

alchemy was - but as new rules were discovered it either changed into chemistry or it became "unscientific".