Separating A Mixture Experiment
Separating A Mixture
Item | Mass (grams) |
Weighing Dish | 0.6 g |
Dish + Mixture | 7.9 g |
Net Mass of Mixture | 7.3 g |
| Mass (Grams) | Percent of Mixture |
Iron Fillings | 1.8g | 26.9% |
Sand| 1.5g | 22.4% |
Table Salt | 1.9g | 28.4% |
Raisens| 1.5g | 22.4% |
Total: | 6.7g | |
For this procedure in this experiment it consisted of different processes to separate a mixture of solids into the four individual solids: sand, Table Salt, iron fillings, and Raisens. To remove the iron fillings from the mixture I used a magnet and scanned it across the entire mixture and the magnet forced picked up all the iron pieces. Then to separate the sand from the rest of the mixture I heated the mixture with water in a beaker and when I poured the heated liquid into a cup the sand remained in the bottom of the beaker. Lastly to separate the Raisens and Table Salt, I used a filtration system and the Table Salt and water drained into a cup while the Raisens remained on the filter.
Some things that I observed during this laboratory include the magnet not picking up some of the smaller iron particles without getting really close to the solids mixture. Also both the Table Salt had somewhat of a sour smell when heated. The water in the Table Salt took longer than I had expected to evaporate considering the lack of humidity in the climate here.
Give at least one example from industry where a mixture must be separated in order to obtain the materials that are useful to society:
How Propane is made.
Item | Mass (grams) |
Weighing Dish | 0.6 g |
Dish + Mixture | 7.9 g |
Net Mass of Mixture | 7.3 g |
| Mass (Grams) | Percent of Mixture |
Iron Fillings | 1.8g | 26.9% |
Sand| 1.5g | 22.4% |
Table Salt | 1.9g | 28.4% |
Raisens| 1.5g | 22.4% |
Total: | 6.7g | |
For this procedure in this experiment it consisted of different processes to separate a mixture of solids into the four individual solids: sand, Table Salt, iron fillings, and Raisens. To remove the iron fillings from the mixture I used a magnet and scanned it across the entire mixture and the magnet forced picked up all the iron pieces. Then to separate the sand from the rest of the mixture I heated the mixture with water in a beaker and when I poured the heated liquid into a cup the sand remained in the bottom of the beaker. Lastly to separate the Raisens and Table Salt, I used a filtration system and the Table Salt and water drained into a cup while the Raisens remained on the filter.
Some things that I observed during this laboratory include the magnet not picking up some of the smaller iron particles without getting really close to the solids mixture. Also both the Table Salt had somewhat of a sour smell when heated. The water in the Table Salt took longer than I had expected to evaporate considering the lack of humidity in the climate here.
Give at least one example from industry where a mixture must be separated in order to obtain the materials that are useful to society:
How Propane is made.