Separation Techniques

Question 1

What are the techniques for separating solid mixtures?

Answer 1

Sieving, hand separation, magnetic separation

Question 2

What are the techniques for separating a suspension?

Answer 2

Sieving, decanting, sedimentation, filtration

Question 3

What is evaporation, and what is it used to obtain?

Answer 3

It’s a separation technique, and used to obtain a solid from a solution

Question 4

What is chromatography? Is it for insoluble or soluble substances?

Answer 4

Consists of a mobile phase (a solvent of sorts) and a stationary phase (a substance that stays still in the chromatography setup)

Components of the mixture spread out depending on the speed they travel through the stationary phase

Question 5

What is a filtrate?

Answer 5

A liquid which has passed through a filter.