Georgia has a bucket of sandy sea water, and wants to separate it out into it's components: sea-salt, water and sand. What steps should she take to achieve this? How can she check at the end that the water is pure?

First, she should filter the mixture using a filter funnel and filter paper to remove the sand. Then, she should distill the remaining solution, using a bunsen burner, a distillation column and a condensing cylinder, leaving the salt to depoisit, and she should collect the water exiting the condensing cylinder in a beaker. To check that the water is pure, she should use a thermometer to show that the boiling point of the liquid is exactly 100 degrees Celsius.

NB

Related Chemistry GCSE answers

All answers ▸

Decribe, in terms of electrons ,what happens when a sodium atom reacts with a chlorine atom to form sodium chloride.


What happens to the reactivity going down group 7?


Describe the relationships between the Atoms in Carbon Dioxide Molecules.


What happens when you heat Calcium Carbonate?