How will you separate a mixture of sodium chloride and sand?


 The process involved in the separation of sodium chloride and sand, is filtration followed by evaporation.

The steps are given below:
  • Take the mixture of sodium chloride and sand in a china dish. Pour some water into the mixture of sodium chloride and sand.
  • After few seconds, all the sodium chloride will dissolve in water but sand will not.
  • Then pour the contents of the container into a funnel fitted with filter paper.
  • Sand remains on the paper as residue and sodium chloride dissolved in the water passes through it to the funnel.
  • Now put the salt solution of the funnel on heat. Water starts getting evaporated leaving salt as residue in the funnel.
  • Remove the funnel from heat.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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