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A mixture of salt and sugar has to be separated, using the solvent ethanol. Draw a diagram to show how you will separate the salt.

Important Questions on Separating Substances

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Explain the term in your own words:

Soluble

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Look at the table and answer:

Which substance in it is the most soluble?

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Look at the table and answer:

About how many times silver nitrate is a more soluble substance than potassium sulphate, at 25°C?

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Look at the table and answer:

Name one other group of salts that are always soluble.

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Explain why melting and boiling points can be used as a way to check purity.
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Could there be impurities in a gas? Explain.
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A mixture of salt and sugar has to be separated, using the solvent ethanol. How could you obtain sugar crystals from the sugar solution, without losing the ethanol?
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The diagram below shows a chromatogram for a mixture of amino acids. 

Amino acid Rf value
Cysteine 0.08
Lysine 0.14
Glycine 0.26
Serine 0.27
Alanine 0.38
Proline 0.43
Valine 0.60
Leucine 0.73

The solvent was a mixture of water, butanol and ethanoic acid. How will the Rfvalues change if the solvent travels only 6cm?