Introduction
A mixture is a combination of two or more pure substances that are physically combined [not chemically combined]. There are two types of mixtures, which are homogeneous mixtures and heterogeneous mixtures. Homogeneous mixtures are mixtures that have components which are uniformly distributed throughout the mixture. For example, sugar water is a homogeneous mixture. A heterogeneous mixture is a mixture that has components which are not uniformly distributed throughout the mixture. For example, a raisin bagel is a homogenous mixture. Since mixtures are physically combined, they can be physically separated. Mixtures can be separated by decanting, filtration, distillation, magnetic separation, and chromatography. Filtration is when
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Distillation is when the substance with the lower boiling point will evaporate and the substance with the higher boiling point will stay. The substance that is evaporated cools down and is collected separately. Magnetic separation is when a magnet separated the iron containing substances from the non-iron containing substances. Chromatography is when a pigment of color is placed on special paper, such as filter paper, and a liquid solvent is put on one side of the filter paper. While the solvent is being absorbed, the different components in the pigment separates. The original pigment also dissolves into the solvent. The problem being presented is which component has the higher percent composition by mass in the sand, salt, and iron mixture. The purpose of the experiment was to determine the percent composition by mass of each substance in the sand, salt, and iron mixture by separating those using different methods and then figuring out which substance has the highest percent …show more content…
For example, if iron filings and water is combined, then it is a heterogeneous mixture because the iron filings are different states of matter and are not uniformly distributed in this mixture. Another example would be black ink. Black ink is a homogeneous mixture because everything is uniformly distributed to create one specific color. Continuing on, sodium chloride and water would be a homogeneous mixture since the salt would be fully dissolved in the water and uniformly distributed. During the experiment, if the filter paper tore and some sand and bits of paper were in the solution in the flask, the correct solution to this problem would be to add another new filter paper to the torn one. Then the solution should be poured and refiltered again in a different flask. When chromatography was done on the color blue, it was concluded that that pigment that was most soluble in water and less attracted to the water was the color cyan because it was on the top. If a color is on the top, it means that that color was the one that dissolved the fastest and one that was attracted to the water the most. The mass of the salt in the mixture could have been isolated and measured by separating the iron filings from the rest of the mixture by using the process of magnetic separation. The iron filings’ mass would be measured. Then the sand could be separated from the mixture by filtration. The sands’ mass would be measured.
Because salt dissolves in water, we added water to the salt and sand mixture. Sand is insoluble in water making the sand not dissolve. The mixture containing of sand and salt water was then filtered with filter paper. The filter paper allowed the salt water to pass through because it is a liquid while not allowing sand to pass through because it is a solid. The salt water was then collected in a pre-weighed 250-mL (67.88 gram) beaker while the sand and filter paper was put in a pre-weighed (52.02 gram) 100-mL beaker. The water was then evaporated because we left both beakers to dry overnight.
The purpose of this lab was to determine the limiting reactant in a mixture of to soluble salts and the percent composition of each substance in a salt mixture.
substance present in greatest amount • Solute- substance (s) present in smaller amounts • Homogenous= of similar kind, or a uniform consistency • Heterogenous= of different kind How to figure the concentration of solutions? • 1 % or parts per 100 parts • 10%, 20%, & 85% glucose 2. Colloids- is a heterogenous mixture with solutes that are invisible & don’t settle out (jello, cytosol) 3. Suspensions- is a heterogenous mixture with visible solutes that tend to settle out (blood) • Mixtures-
In this experiment, distillations were done. This is a technique that utilizes the differing boiling points of two or more compounds in a mixture in order to separate the compounds from the mixture. The way fractional distillation works is that the initial mixture is boiled up to the point of the lower boiling point compound; this compound then evaporates. This compound is then
5. Substances in a mixture can be separated depending on the substances involved. You can use a magnet to separate a magnetic substance form a non-magnetic one, filtering, and evaporation. For example, when I put the
There are various techniques to separate a mixture of compounds from each other. One of the commonly used way to isolate compounds from a mixture of two compounds is called extraction. This method of extracting two compounds from each other relies on the different solubility of the compounds in two different solvents.
Distillation is a method of separating two volatile chemicals on the basis of their differing boiling points. During this lab, students were given 30 mL of an unknown solution containing two colorless chemicals. Because the chemicals may have had a relatively close boiling point, we had to employ a fractional distillation over a simple distillation. By adding a fractionating column between the boiling flask and the condenser, we were able to separate the liquids more efficiently due to the fact that more volatile liquids tend to push towards the top of the fractionating column, thereby leaving the liquid with the lower boiling point towards the bottom. After obtaining the distillates, we utilized a gas chromatograph in order to analyze the volatile substances in the gas phase and determine their composition percentage of the initial solution. Overall, through this lab we were able to enhance our knowledge on the practical utilization of chemical theories, and thus also demonstrated technical fluency involving the equipment.
The purpose of this experiment was to separate the component of three mixtures sand, sodium chloride and calcium carbonate then calculate the percentage by mass of each component recovered from the mixture. The other purpose of this experiment was to show us the students the concepts associated with physical and chemical properties of substances.
Discussion As part of the experiment, the percent composition of each component of the mixture was calculated. 51% of the components were retrieved from filtration while 49% of the solvents were retrieved from dissolving the components in a solvent. The original mixture was one globular solid-like structure.
The purpose of this experiment was to separate a two component mixture using fractional distillation. Distillation is a process of vaporization than condensation of a substance, used primarily to separate substances from a mixture when there are different boiling points. Fractional distillation is when the mixture has multiple substances with similar boiling points, and a fractional column is used to create multiple vaporization/condensation cycles. Fractional distillation is important when two or more substances need to be separated, but they have similar boiling points.
This Lab Report is an analysis of the results of a two-part experiment. In the first part, we used a gel filtration column to separate the components of a mixture composed of protein and non-protein molecules. By doing so we hoped to obtain fractions that contained single components of the mixture, while also gaining insight into the relative molecular weight of each component compared to each other. We would then plot these fractions onto nitrocellulose paper in order to determine which fractions had protein. In the second part, we would use the fractions which we had determined had protein to conduct an SDS-PAGE. By doing so we hoped to determine an estimate on the molecular weight of the proteins present in each fraction by comparing it to a tracker dye composed of a variety of molecules of differing molecular weight.
These layers can be separated through the use of a seperatory funnel which drains the bottom layer into a separate container. This method uses the understanding of partition ratios of solutes to different paired solvents to produce an equilibrium leaning towards one solvent over another, thereby extracting a compound from one liquid to the other (Padias 128-37). For example, consider a mixture containing two solutes, solute A and solute B, and two immiscible solvents, solvent A and solvent B. If solute A dissolves well into solvent A, but not very well into solvent B, and solute B dissolves well into solvent B but not very well into solvent A, there would be a higher ratio of solute A in solvent A than in solvent B, and a higher ratio of solute B into solvent B than in solvent A. One can then see that, through the use of different solvents, two dissolved solutes can be separated from a mixture. This ratio of a solute concentration to different solvents is defined by K, the distribution constant. Successive filtrations yield’s a higher percentage of products.
The objective of this experiment will be to combine various substances, liquids and metals, and to observe their behavior when they are combined. The types of reactions observed shall determine the nature of these reactions: physical or chemical.
The main objective of the distillation lab was to identify the composition of an unknown binary solution. The only known component is that the boiling point of the two components were at least 40˚C apart in boiling points. Due to the difference in boiling points, fractional distillation would be an easy way to determine the identity of each component of the binary solution. In the experiment, 30mL of the unknown binary solution was ran through the fractional distillation apparatus. As the solution boiled, gas from the unknown solution ran through the column, which had a temperature gradient to allow rapid and repeated distillations, and one of the components were isolated. By recording the temperature and amount of
After the column the separated compounds enter the detector, which measures a physical or chemical property of each, now relatively pure, compound and creates a proportional electronic signal. By calibrating with a standard mixture of known compounds, the nature of the compound in the