Separation of Mixtures: Solids Essay

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    Glass Funnel Lab

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    Fritted glass funnels are commonly used in chemistry labs. They have porous glass at the bottom that traps solids and allows liquids to pass through. Filter paper in a glass funnel will catch the solids and allow you to isolate a pure sample, sodium chromate in this case, that was formed during a chemical reaction. After the solid is separated from the liquid it is allowed to dry so any liquid stuck to the substance will just evaporate away and you are left with a pure substance. Distillation is

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    Lab Report on Solubility

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    Separation of the Components of a Mixture General Chemistry 1 (Chem 101), ISP SCUHS Report 2 January 26, 2014 Abstract The analyses of mixture were to distinguish and identify homogeneous mixture by using the techniques of decantation and sublimation. By performing these techniques, we examined our solutions such as SiO2 (sand), NH4Cl (ammonium chloride), and NaCl (sodium chloride) and mixed H2O (water) with each solution after being heated. After examining our solutions, we made calculations

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    its groups. Thin Layer Chromatography Separation of O-Nitro Aniline and P-Nitro Aniline Chromatography can be defined as a series of steps used to identify, analyze and separate compound. It is a method used to obtain components from a non-volatile mixture (Preethi, Harita & Rajesh, 2017). There are various types of chromatography separations methods. These include: column, gas, supercritical fluid chromatography and Thin layer chromatography. All these separation techniques operate under the same procedure;

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    Chromatography Essay

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    Chromatography is a separation technique in which the mixture to be separated is dissolved in a solvent and the resulting solution, often called the mobile phase, is then passed through or over another material, the stationary phase. The separation of the original mixture depends on how strongly each component is attracted to the stationary phase. Substances that are attracted strongly to the stationary phase will be retarded and not move alone with the mobile phase. Weakly attracted substances will

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    Chromatography is a technique for separation of mixtures. The name combines the greek chroma, or “color,” with graphein, “to write.” The technique was invented in 1900 by Mikhail Tsvet, who used it “to write the colors” of plant pigments like chlorophyll carotenes, and xanthophylls. He did that by dissolving the plant mixtures in a fluid, or mobile phase, and allowing it to flow through a solid material called a stationary phase. The components of the mixture flow through the stationary phase material

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    Abstract: One mixture of two unknown liquid compounds and one mixture of two unknown solid compounds were separated, isolated, purified, and characterized by boiling point. Two liquid unknowns were separated, isolated, and purified via simple distillation. Then, the process of an acid-base extraction and washing were used to separate two unknown compounds into two crude compounds: an organic acid and a neutral organic compound. Each crude compound was purified by recrystallization, resulting in a

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    permits the passage of particular constituents of the mixture while trapping other mixture components. Commonly used membrane processes encompass reverse osmosis (hyperfiltration), ultrafiltration and microfiltration. The ultrafiltration membrane separates suspended solids from water sources without coagulation. An ultrafiltration retains particles whose molecular weights range from 1000 to 1,000,000. An ultrafiltration functions by driving the mixture solution under pressure over the appropriately supported

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    the separation technique of filtering. What type of mixtures can be separated using filtering? Is filtering a physical or chemical filtering technique? Filtration can only be used to separate a solid from a liquid. Typically, the mixture is heterogeneous because filtration is a physical filtering technique that separates components that has noticeably different size. 2) Under what conditions is an acetanilide/water mixture a solution? a heterogeneous mixture? An acetanilide/water mixture is considered

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    55 consists of devising a separation and purification scheme for a three component mixture. The overall objective is to isolate in pure form two of the three compounds. This was done using extraction, solubility, crystallization and vacuum filtration. The experiment was carried out two times, both of which were successful. Background Information: This experiment combined all the knowledge of the previous labs performed throughout the semester. An unknown mixture containing an organic acid

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    complete the LEA was separated from the biofuel, and water/methanol mixture using an Erlenmeyer filtering funnel utilizing both course and fine filters (Whatman 1541-125 and 1542-125). A 1:1 solvent to water ratio (300 mL) and a 3:1 solvent to chloroform ratio (100 mL) were added to induce a phase separation. Phase separation was allowed to occur overnight. Biofuel and chloroform were separated from the methanol/water mixture using a separation funnel. The chloroform and biofuel were separated by evaporating

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