Name: Separation Techniques
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 6 min 9 s
Description: In our everyday life, we find situations where the components of a mixture need to be separated. Let’s explore a few of the separation processes!

Question

Yesterday you and a couple of your friends threw some solid substances like poppy seeds, sand, salt, and iron filings into buckets filled with water. You were not aware that these substances were part of some materials that your father needed for a project at work. Now, the substances are all mixed in the water. When your father found out about this he was not happy. He wants you to separate all the components back. Design the procedure to recover all the substances.

Accepted Answer

Poppy seeds, sand and iron filings can be separated from water by filtration, we will get mixture of poppy seeds, sand and water as residue and mixture of salt and water as filtrate. Now we can separate iron fillings from poppy seeds and sand by magnetic separation, poppy seeds and sand can be separated by sieving, with the help of sieve poppy seeds will be separated from sand. The salt and water can be separated by evaporation.

Seema Sinha and Deepika Parashari Solutions for Exercise 2: HOTS

Seema Sinha Science Solutions for Exercise - Seema Sinha and Deepika Parashari Solutions for Exercise 2: HOTS

Questions from Seema Sinha and Deepika Parashari Solutions for Exercise 2: HOTS with Hints & Solutions

Learn and Prepare for any exam you want !