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Separation techniques laboratory

Match mixtures to filtration, phase change, distillation, chromatography or layer separation.

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Sand and water

filtration

Description of this simulation

Choose a technique for Sand and water, then test it against the relevant physical property.

Quick test · 3 questions
1. Which statement is evidence from this simulation?
2. How should you test the effect of one control?
3. Why read the model notes?

Separation principle

Property used
particle size

Make a choice to reveal why it does or does not work.

What this model shows — and what it simplifies

Educational Model

The decision model compares the dominant property used by each standard school-laboratory technique.

Where do we see this in real life?

Water treatment, petroleum refining, medicine purification, food processing and forensic chromatography are all controlled separations.

Explain this result

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