Separation of Mixtures Lab

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Department of Chemistry Separation of Mixture of Solids Purpose To become familiar with the separation of mixtures of solids. Procedure 1. Gathered all of the supplies that are needed. 2. Used digital scale to determine the mass of weighing dish. 3. Emptied the entire mixture of solids from plastic bag into weighing dish and determined gross mass of mixture and weighing dish. Computed net mass of the mixture. 4. Spread the mixture into a thin layer of full size piece of paper. 5. Cut a second piece of paper into a 10cm square. Weighed and recorded mass of paper and set it to the side. 6. I wrapped a small square of clear plastic over the magnet. Removed the iron powder/filings by passing the magnet closely over the surface of the entire mixture. Repeated this several time to make sure all iron was collected. 7. Held magnet of 10cm square paper, and carefully removed the plastic and allowed the iron to fall onto the paper. Weighed and determined net mass of iron powder/fillings. 8. Placed the remaining mixture, containing sand, benzoic acid and table salt into beaker and added 50mL of distilled water. 9. Set up the beaker stand and burner fuel and heated the beaker of solids and water to near boiling. Stirred the mixture to make sure all soluble material dissolves. 10. Poured the liquid while it is hot into a small paper cup. 11. Poured another 10 to 15mL of distilled water into the beaker containing the sand, brining the mixture to a boil and decanted again into the same cup used previously. 12. Made an ice bath by placing a small amount of crushed ice and tap water into a coffee cup. Made sure the ice bath level was higher than the solution level but low enough so no additional water poured into the solution cup. 13. Placed the cup containing the water solution of benzoic acid and salt into the ice bath. Observed the benzoic acid crystallizing

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