The different types of separation techniques in chemistry

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Introduction

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Good day dear members of campus connect, it's nice to be here again, I took a long break from Steemit when I encountered some problems but hopefully I'm back now. This is my second post in the community and I've said 50% to the community account so as to be a verified member. Here's a link to my first post . So today I'll be discussing on the various separation techniques I was taught back then in school and I hope you al enjoys it.

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Separation Techniques

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Separation techniques is a process whereby two or more liquids can be separated using different method. There are numerous ways to separate liquids and I've briefly explained them below.:

• Distillation

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This is a process used in separating two or more pure liquids. It involves the vaporisation, condensation and isolation of the mixed liquids. This process isn't as sophisticated as it may sound as it it involves the mixture been heated and the volatile component evaporates first then the vapour will move down through a condenser and and it'll return in a liquid state.

• Filtration or Sedimentation

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This is a common separation technique used to separate insoluble solid from a liquid. It involves a process of removing solid particles from liquid. E.g Sand and water mixture, a filter paper is placed in a container and the mixture is poured into it. The solid particles will remain on the filter paper and the water will pass through.

• Separating Funnel

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This is the most easiest method used in separating two immiscible liquids. If two liquids are immiscible, the the density of the liquids will be different thus, a mechanism was made to easily separate the two mixture. E.g water and oil can be segregated when placed in a funnel and using a stop cock to time the removal of each liquids.

• Evaporation

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This technique is well known and doesn't need any technical process conducting it. It involves the separation of water from other substances by boiling and making the water to evaporate thereby leaving the fine materials in the container.

• Magnetic Separation

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This process is mostly used to separate solid materials. If two metals that are ferrous and non ferrous are mistakenly mixed together and are hard to differentiate, then we use a magnet to fish out the ferrous metals because all ferrous metals are magnetic.

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Conclusion

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