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5 14, Cabaas, Angelica 16, Abenido, Shannen 23, Losaes, I. Introduction We can never have perfect experiments, so we should always have in mind how to separate the things we use. Sometimes the answer to the questions we have can be found by working back. Separating these materials was like going through the experience one step by one step but backward. We are able to see the things the formation of the mixture from the results. This procedure enables us to check our works. II. Objective Separating mixtures of solids and liquids are very hard and the reason for doing this experiment is to find the fastest and best way to divide them. We have to find the steps into getting them all unattached and into their original states. It may take a long time since these objects may still have to go through the processes of evaporation, freezing or melting. III. Materials and Methods Materials: 1. sulfur powder 2. iron fillings 3. paper 4. aluminium can 5. magnet 6. alcohol lamp 7. tripod 8. wire gauze 9. tongs 10. styro chips 11. small nails 12. sand 13. salt 14. magnet 15. water 16. filter paper 17. 2 beakers 18. evaporating dish Date Performed January 13, 2010 Date Submitted January 14, 2009

Separating Mixtures

19. iodine crystals 20. funnel 21. stirring rod Methods: Part 1: 1. Mix the sulfur powder and iron fillings. 2. Place them on a piece of a paper 3. Move the magnet under the paper 4. Observe 5. Placed the mixture inside the aluminium can 6. Heat 7. After an few minutes, describe what happens 8. Place the magnet close to the substance 9. Look if you can still separate them 10. Explain the happenings altogether Part 2: 1. Mix together the styro chips, small nails, sand and salt inside the beaker 2. Use the magnet to remove the nails from the mixture 3. Add water to the remaining mixture and stir to completely dissolve the salt 4. The styro chips will float so pick them up 5. Place the filter paper in the funnel and filter the remaining solution to get rid of the sand 6. Heat up the remaining solution to make the water evaporate and leave only the salt Part 3: 1. Set up the tripod with the wire gauze on top of it. 2. Place the iodine crystals on the evaporating dish and place it on the tripod 3. Heat up the iodine crystals and place the funnel on top, covering the evaporating dish 4. Observe the happenings IV. Results and Observations Part 1: When the sulfur powder and the iron fillings were mixed on the paper it was easy to part them since iron is magnetic and the powder wasnt. However when we heated the mixture the sulfur powder turned to liquid then evaporated and the iron fillings werent magnetic anymore. Part 2: It was easy to take the nails out since we only had to drive them out of the mixture by moving them out. The styro chips floated because of its buoyant properties. Since sand is not soluble, it was easy to take it out using the filter paper. When it came to separating the salt from the water, it took us a long time because of the temperature of the heat. But with a lot of patience, we were able to evaporate the water and take out the salt. Part 3:

When heated the iodine crystals produced a violet-colored smoke, it was practically based on this color that it got its name iodine, since iodes means violet. The funnel got small spots around it that produced a yellowish color. V. Discussion

Mentioned above are some of the different methods used in chemistry; heating, dissolving, mixing and the like. They are what the different objects we used have gone through and going through them again a little differently gave them different results. Heat was important since it enables a lot of results like evaporating, simple heating or even getting rid of the metallic properties of metal. It was a good thing that none of the materials had the same properties with the other, like solubility. If both sand and salt were soluble then it would be hard to separate them since we would not be able to separate the sand and salt. VI. References Wikipedia.org