Year 9 B Worksheet SC2 a.

5 Mixtures and melting

Name : Alric Dsouza Date : 15-9-2022h

Developing
1. Circle the two mixtures in this list. Explain your choices.
air orange juice silver sodium chloride water
air - a mixture because it can be seperated into different things like nitrogen and oxeygen as air has many gases

water- because hydrogen and oxygen can form water

2 Describe the key characteristics of a mixture. Use the key words and phrases given in the
box.
melting temperature substances composition range physical process
separated

they can have a range of a melting point and a boiling point as the substances in a mixture
can break down if the temperature is very high as components of a mixture can be seperated
in simple separation methods

3 Complete the paragraph below using all the words in the box in your answer.
Pure substances have a fixed composition . This means that their physical
properties do not change across the material. This means that melting occurs at a sharp,
single temperature .In mixtures, melting occurs over a of
temperatures. range

physical range composition temperature

4 Look at this graph.

a Is this a heating curve for a pure substance

or a mixture?
pure substance

b Explain what the shape of the graph tells

you.

the shape of the graph is not accurate but it tells us that

when the solid is being melted to a liquid the temperature
stays and dosent drop at all as it later turns into a liquid
 Secure
Explain how you can use melting point data to identify whether a substance is pure or a
mixture.
5 Explain, in no more than 50 words, why pure substances have fixed melting points, but
mixtures do not.
various substances have various melting temperatures. Mixtures are combinations of substances. Pure
substance have the same composition in every part of it and so their physical properties are the same in
every part whereas a mixture melts at a completely different level because there are 2 different substances
compounded.
6 Explain what you would see if you drew a graph of the data from the experiment in
question 2 for a pure substance and a mixture.
Sharp melting point or a horizental linebasically means that the substance is fully pure, no
horizontal line means its a mixture or an impure substance as it also depends on the
sharpness of the melting or freezing point

Exceeding
7 During soldering, a mixture of metals ('solder') is heated until it melts. The molten metal
falls into the gaps between two pieces of metal and freezes, joining the pieces of metal
together. A 'soft solder' melts between 183 °C and 212 °C. A 'hard solder' melts between
620 °C and 680 °C. Explain the difference in melting ranges.
the difference in both of them is because they both have different melting points because in it
the difference is 60 and 29 which proves 60-29= 31 and 31 is the difference in melting range as
the hard solder is better than the soft solder