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Homogeneous Mixture Lab Report

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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 …show more content…

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.

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