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Subject:
Separating the water out of chemical mixture of sludge
Category: Science > Chemistry Asked by: dr12-ga List Price: $25.00 |
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03 Mar 2005 17:58 PST
Expires: 02 Apr 2005 17:58 PST Question ID: 484365 |
How to separate a chemical mixture of water, sand, potassium perchlorate, sodium chloride, isopropyl alcohol and charcoal by filtation, fractional distallation, and fractional crystallization. |
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Re: Separating the water out of chemical mixture of sludge
From: osmium-ga on 17 Mar 2005 13:52 PST |
Filter your mixture.This will give you the two insoluble materials, sand and charcoal. Put this mixture of solids in water and gently stir. This will briefly suspend the charcoal while allowing the sand to settle to the bottom. Decant the charcoal suspension while leaving the sand on the bottom. Doing this a number of times will remove the charcoal from the heavier sand. Filter the charcoal suspension to recover the charcoal. Isopropyl alcohol and water from an azeotrope with a composition of 70% isopropyl alcohol in water. A simple distillation would not separate this mixture. The presence of the sodium chloride and potassium perchlorate will help in this separation. The salts dissociates in the liquid mixture and alters the relative volatilities sufficiently that the separation may become possible. You need to do a careful fractional distallation to remove the isopropyl alcohol while leaving behind the water solution of the two salts. The salts in this remaining water solution can then be separated by fractional crystallization. |
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