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Purification Of Sodium Carbonate From Wood Ash

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The goal of this experiment is to have students obtain Potassium and Sodium Carbonates from wood ash. Wood ash contains a mixture of various minerals and compounds that are combined in a heterogeneous mixture. This mixture of minerals contains the wanted Potassium and Sodium Carbonates, and the students will conduct various purification processes in order to extract the Potassium and Sodium Carbonates. This lab experiment also demonstrates the difficulties our ancestors had when extracting these Carbonates. The principle behind how the carbonates can be purified is due to the minerals various solubilities in warm and cold conditions. The process of purification that the students completed was a series of mixture heating and filtrations. Each

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