Worksheet 1 – Separation Techniques

Paper 1 – MCQ

1. D
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. A
11. B
12. C
13. C
14. A

Paper 2 – Structured questions

1. (a) C and F
(b) 3
(c) A and B
2. (a) Mixture of liquids with different boiling points. [1]
(b) Water flowing in and out are in wrong directions. [1]
(c) To ensure smooth boiling. [1]
(d) Distillate
3. First, use a filter paper and a funnel to separate the sand and salt water. The sand would be
collected on the filter paper as it is insoluble. [1]
Then by simple distillation, the salt water will be boiled. [1]
The pure water would vaporize, cooled by the condenser and be collected. The salt would
remain in the distillation flask. [1]

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 Test 1 – Separation Techniques

1. Fill in the missing blanks below.

(a) Water out

(b) Water out

(c) Distillate

2. List the two steps to carry out crystallisation of sugar from sugar solution.

(1) Heat sugar solution until saturation point.

(2) Cool to allow sugar crystals to form.

3. Fractional Distillation allows the separation of a liquid-liquid mixture.

(a) What is the working principle for this technique to separate a mixture?

The liquids have different boiling point.

(b) Ethanol has a boiling point of 87°𝐶 and water has a boiling point of 100°𝐶. If we were to
separate an ethanol-water mixture using fractional distillation, which liquid will distillate first?

Ethanol

(c) Name another example which can be separated by fractional distillation.

Petrol from crude oil

Liquid Air

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