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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 ?

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Look at the table and answer:
Name one other group of salts that are always soluble.

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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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A mixture of salt and sugar has to be separated, using the solvent ethanol. Draw a diagram of the apparatus used in the experiment of obtaining sugar crystals from the sugar solution, without losing the ethanol.

MEDIUM
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The diagram below shows a chromatogram for a mixture of amino acids.
Amino acid | 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 values change if the solvent travels only cm?
