Separating Mixtures
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Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
By Oliver Smith
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Storyboard Description
Ways to separate mixtures - Have students identify, describe, and illustrate different ways to separate mixtures in science.
Storyboard Text
- FILTERING
- EVAPORATION
- Filtering can be used to separate insoluble solids from liquids.
- Evaporation can be used to separate soluble solids from a liquid.
- DISTILLATION
- Separating Mixtures
- CHROMATOGRAPHY
- Distillation can be used to separate a a liquid from a solution. It works because substances have different boiling points.
- Chromatography can be used to separate dissolved substances that have colors such as dyes. It works because some substances are more soluble than others.
Image Attributions
- evaporation - technicolor76 - (License Attribution )
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) - Smithsonian Institution - (License No known copyright restrictions )
- Image taken from page 269 of 'A treatise on the distillation of Coal-Tar and Ammoniacal Liquor, and the separation from them of valuable products. [Translated from the German.]' - The British Library - (License No known copyright restrictions )
- smartie chromatography - Siyavula Education - (License Attribution )
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