1 Individual sand grains are approximately the same size as salt grains, <1 mm in diameter. How can salt and sand grains be separated from each other?
2 Why are pencils used in chromatography?
3 If your teacher runs out of filter paper for an experiment, could they use coffee machine filter paper instead? Would this affect the experiment in any way? If so, explain how.
4 What difficulties would you encounter separating two clear liquids? 5 What industries find it useful to use separation techniques? Why is it important?
6 How can separation techniques help people in countries that have no fresh water supplies?
7 Draw a particle model of orange juice being separated using distillation. Use circles to represent the water molecules and triangles to represent the orange.