★ Chromatography

★ Evaporation

★ Centrifugation

★ Distillation

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 Separation of
Homogeneous mixtures

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 1. Evaporation

● Ink is the mixture of

dye & water.
● On heating water
evaporated & dye left
behind in the watch
glass.
● Ink is a mixture.

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 1. Evaporation

PRINCIPLE APPLICATIONS
By evaporation we can separate
the volatile component (solvent) ● Table salt is
from its non-volatile solute . obtained from the
The method drives off the evaporation of
liquid components from the solid seawater. The
components. The process heat for the
typically involves heating the process comes from
mixture until no more liquid the sun.
remains.
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 2. Centrifugation

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 2. Centrifugation

● When the rotor rotates

rapidly, milk being higher
density settles at the
bottom and lighter
density cream floats on
the top.

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 2. Centrifugation
PRINCIPLE

Sometimes the solid particles in a liquid are very small

and pass through filter.
Such mixture are separated by centrifugation. The
principle is that the denser particles are forced to the
bottom and the lighter particles stay at the top when
spun rapidly.

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 2. Centrifugation
APPLICATIONS

(i) Used in diagnostic laboratories for blood and urine

tests.
(ii) Used in dairies and home to separate butter from
cream.
(iii) Used in washing machine to squeeze out water
from wet clothes

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Chromatography

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 Chromatography
PRINCIPLE APPLICATIONS

Every substance (solute ) To separate

will have different ● Colours from dye
solubility in a given ● Pigments from natural
solvent. Due to the colours
difference in the rate of ● Drugs from blood
dissolution, different Forensic scientists identify
solutes move at different the substance which are
rates. present in traces.
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 Distillation method

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 Distillation method
PRINCIPLE APPLICATIONS

Distillation is the process of On large scale distilled

separating the components water is obtained from
of a mixture containing two the distillation of
miscible liquids that boil seawater.
without decomposition and To separate the mixtures
have sufficient difference of water(100oC) &
(25K) in their boiling points. acetone (56oC),

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