1. Chapter 3: Separation Techniques
Chapter 3: Separating Technqiues
Chapter 3: Separation Techniques
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2. Chapter 3: Separating Technqiues
3.1 Chromatography
Chromatography is a technique of using a solvent to separate a mixture into its components
Example: Paper Chromatography
Paper chromatography can be use to separate dyes in ink, amino acids obtain from proteins, identify toxics

3. How does chromatography works?
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How does chromatography works?
A spot of food colouring is applied to chromatography paper
Once the paper is dipped in ethanol, it soaks up.
Ethanol travel up the paper, carrying dyes along
Dye that is not very soluble > carried not far
Dye that is soluble > Carried far

4. How can we identify a banned substance present in food colouring?
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How can we identify a banned substance present in food colouring?
Chromatography was performed on a sample of food colouring (‘X’) and 4 banned dyes (‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’)
If X contains any of the 4 banned dyes, itt is not safe to be consumed.

5. Interpreting Chromatography
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Interpreting Chromatography
Chromatography paper with separated component is known as chromatogram
Solvent front
The chromatogram shows the food colouring used in the experiment was a mixture of two dyes.
Coloured spots

6. Interpreting Chromatography
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Interpreting Chromatography
Chromatography paper with separated component is known as chromatogram
Solvent front
The chromatogram has only a spot, this dye is made up of a dye. Thus, it’s pure.

7. What conclusion can be drawn from this chromatogram?
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What conclusion can be drawn from this chromatogram? X A B C D
Identical dyes produce spots at same height
Sample X does not contains the banned dyes A,B,D
However, X contains the banned dye. Therefore, it must not be consumed

8. What conclusion can be drawn from this chromatogram?
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What conclusion can be drawn from this chromatogram? X A B C D
Dyes A&D are pure
Both dye B & C are mixture of 2 different dyes
Sample X is a mixture of 3 dyes

9. How do we identify colourless substances?
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How do we identify colourless substances?
Chromatography can also be used for colourless substances such as amino acids. To separate and analyse colourless substance, we apply a locating agent on a chromatogram.
If no dye appear after using locating agent, this means that solvent can’t dissolve the dye

10. Uses of Chromatography
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Uses of Chromatography
Separate the components in a sample
Identify number of components in a sample
Identify the components present in a sample
Determine whether if a sample is pure

11. Chapter 3: Separating Technqiues
Take Note:
Pencil line
Why do we use pencil?
Pencil is insoluble in solvent
Solvent used cannot above the pencil line.

12. Separation Techniques
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Separation Techniques
Besides chromatography, there are other techniques to separate mixtures.
A solid from liquid – sand + water : Filtration
Solids – Sand + Iron Fillings : Magnetic Attraction
Liquids – Fractional Distillation
A liquid form a solution – Distillation

13. Separating insoluble solid from liquid - Filtration
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Separating insoluble solid from liquid - Filtration
We can use filtration to separate solid particles from a liquid (often it is water)
Example of Small Solid particles includes sand, clay, dust particles and precipitates
Residue
Filter Paper
Filtrate

14. Separating insoluble solid from liquid – Evaporation to Dryness
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Separating insoluble solid from liquid – Evaporation to Dryness
To recover salt from salt solution, we evaporate the solution to dryness
Salt Solution
Evaporating Dish

15. Separating insoluble solid from liquid – Crystallisation
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Separating insoluble solid from liquid – Crystallisation
When a substance decomposes on heating or can lose its water of crystallisation, we do not evaporate it to dryness, we crystallise it.
Sugar Decomposes on heating

16. How do we purify by crystallisation?
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How do we purify by crystallisation?
In crystallisation, water is removed by heating the solution. Heating is stopped at the stage when a hot saturated solution is form. If the resulting solution is allowed to cool to room temperature, the dissolved solid will be formed as pure crystals.

17. How do we test for a saturated solution?
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How do we test for a saturated solution?
A clean glass rod can be used to test whether a solution is saturated.
It is dipped into the solution and removed. There will be a small amount of solution on the rod
If small crystals form on the rod as the solution cools, the solution is saturated
We say the solution is at is saturated point or crystallisation point
Saturated points = maximum amount of solute in solvent at certain room temperature.

18. Separating Solids (E.g.: Salt and Sand)
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Separating Solids (E.g.: Salt and Sand)
Methods: By adding a suitable solvent and filtration
Pour some distilled water (dissolve the salt) into mixture of common salt and sand. Stir and warm (to speed up whole dissolving processes)
Filter the mixture
Sand (Residue)
Salt (dissolved) + Water [Filtrate]

19. Separating Solids (E.g.: Salt and Sand)
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Separating Solids (E.g.: Salt and Sand)
Methods: By adding a suitable solvent and filtration
3. Wash the residue (remove salt solution, get rid of salt) with a little distilled water to remove all salt solution from it. Residue = Sand
4. Evaporate the filtrate to dryness. Salt is recovered
Sand (Residue)
Salt (dissolved) + Water [Filtrate]
Note: If is sugar, continue up till step 3. As for step 4, it will be crystallisation.

20. Separating a Liquid from a solution
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Separating a Liquid from a solution
When a solid dissolves in a solvent, a solution is formed (i.e.: Salt solution)
A pure solvent can be separated from a solution by simple distillation
Distillation is the process of boiling liquid and condensing vapour.
For example, pure water can be obtained from salt solution by this process
To collect solute from solvent, we evaporate solvent.

21. How does simple distillation work?
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How does simple distillation work?
In the distillation flask, water boils and enter condenser
In the condenser, water vapour condenses.
Pure water is collected as the distillate
Boiling chips in the flask is used to smoothen boiling. 2 1 3

22. Things to take note when doing..
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Things to take note when doing..
Thermometer: Should be placed beside the side arm of distillation flask. (Temperature of thermometer = Boiling point of solvent)
Condenser: Consists of 2 tubes : Inner tube and outer wet jacket. Cold running water enters from bottom of condenser and leaves from top.
If the distillate is volatile, the receiver can be put in a large container filled with ice which helps keep temperature of distillate so that it remains in liquid state.

23. Separating Miscible Liquids – Fractional Distillation
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Separating Miscible Liquids – Fractional Distillation
Unlike oil and water, ethanol and water mix together completely to form a solution. They are said to be miscible
If two liquids are miscible, they must be separated by fractional distillation.

24. Separating Miscible Liquids – Fractional Distillation
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A fractionating column, is attached to the round-bottomed flash and the condenser for fractional distillation. Many glass beads in the fractionating column provide a large surface area for vapour to condense on. Other than glass beads, a fractionating column may be filled with plates or a spiral

25. Example of mixture of 2 liquids
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Example of mixture of 2 liquids
Ethanol and water are soluble in each other
To separate these 2 miscible liquid, we use fractional distillation
The boiling point of ethanol is 78 ℃while the boiling point of water is 100 ℃
In fractional distillation, liquid with lower boiling point(ethanol) will be collected first

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How does fractional distillation work?
In the distillation flask, the ethanol and water boils and liquids may distil together
Vapours of liquids with higher boiling points condense along fractionating column and re-enter the round-bottomed flask
Ethanol distils over. In condenser, ethanol vapour condenses.
Ethanol is collect as distillate. 2 3 1 4

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How does temperature change as solution of ethanol and water undergoes fractional distillation?
Temperature (℃)
The temperature of mixture increases as it’s heated
At 78 ℃, ethanol distils over. The temperature remains constant until all ethanol has distilled out of round-bottomed flask
Temperature then increased until 100 ℃. At 100 ℃, water distils over. Temperature remains unchanged as water is being distilled.

28. Industrial applications of fractional distillation
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Industrial applications of fractional distillation
Fractional distillation is used in industries to obtain nitrogen, argon, oxygen from air
Fractional distillation can be used to separate mixtures of liquids such as crude oil
Ethanol is formed when glucose solution undergoes fermentation in presence of yeast.
We can separate ethanol from glucose solution by fractional distillation