Ways To Separate A Mixture

Question 1

Method

Answer 1

Equipment and when best suited

Question 2

Paper Chromatography

Answer 2

Identify chemicals in foods or inks

Need: ink, filter paper, solvent specific to chemicals in the ink

Question 3

Filtration

Answer 3

To separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.

Need: filter paper, funnel, beaker, mixture of insoluble solid & liquid

Question 4

Evaporation

Answer 4

To separate a soluble solid and solvent

Need: solution, beaker, flame

Question 5

Simple Distillation

Answer 5

To separate a liquid from a solution

Need: beaker, solution, condenser tubes, beaker, flame

Question 6

Fractional distillation

Answer 6

To separate a solution of two miscible liquids

Need: mixture, flame, beaker, condenser, fraction column, beaker

Question 7

Magnetism

Answer 7

To separate mixtures of two solids, one part with magnetic properties

Need: mixture, magnet, separate places to put materials

Question 8

Separating funnel

Answer 8

To separate two immiscible liquids

Need: mixture of immiscible liquids, funnel with a tap to the beaker, beaker,