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Separating Mixtures

2. Sorting Separating mixtures with your hands.
Ex: separating pop corn kernels, black beans, & rice

3. 2. Chromatography
Separating colored mixtures.
Ex: Black marker

4. 3. Using a Magnet
Using the magnetic property of a substance to separate a mixture
Made of iron
Ex: Iron Filings & pencil shavings

5. 4. Dissolving a Substance
Mixing substances in water to separate the one that dissolves.
Ex: Sand & Sugar

6. 5. Filtration Separating by size
Allowing liquids or smaller items to pass through a filter, leaving a larger substance on the other side.
Ex: sand & water; rocks & dirt

7. 6. Evaporation/Boiling
Separation by changing a liquid to a gas to leave behind a dissolved substance
Ex:

8. Sand, Salt, Iron Filings Mixture
Procedures for separation: (be very detailed) 1. Take out the iron filings with a magnet.

9. 2. Pour the sand and salt in water so that the salt will dissolve. 3
2. Pour the sand and salt in water so that the salt will dissolve. 3. Use a filter to separate the salt water from the sand.

10. 4. Evaporate the water out of the salt water which will leave the salt behind.

11. Separating Mixtures Questions
1. How do you separate iron filings from sand? 2. How do you separate a mixture of solids and liquids? 3. What is the technique that separates individual colors of a substance? 4. How do you separate the substances that make up a solution? 5. How do you separate a mixture of trail mix? 6. How do you separate a mixture of dirt and rocks? 7. How do you separate Easter Egg dyes? 8. What method of separation does a person use to find diamonds? 9. What method do you use to separate a lemonade mixture? 10. How would you separate a mixture of small particles of chalk and sugar?

12. Separating Mixtures Answers
1. Use a magnet to remove the iron filings.
2. Use a filter (filtration)
3. Chromatography
4. Evaporate out the liquid to the leave the other substance.
5. Sorting
6. Sorting or Filtration
7. Chromatography
8. Filtration
9. Evaporate out the water
10. First, add water to dissolve the sugar
Next, use a filter to separate the sugar water and the chalk
Lastly, evaporate the water leaving behind the sugar.