Chemguide: Core Chemistry 14 - 16


Separating Menu


Using filtration and crystallisation . . .

Separating a mixture of a solid and a liquid, and getting a pure sample of solid from the mixture.

Separating immiscible liquids . . .

A quick look at a simple bit of apparatus to separate two liquids which don't dissolve in each other.

Simple distillation . . .

Producing a pure liquid from a solution of a solid in a liquid.

Fractional distillation . . .

Separating a mixture of liquids into their individual components.

Paper chromatography . . .

Using paper chromatography as a way of identifying the components of small amounts of some mixtures.


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