Imagine you have a mixture that contains iron filings (small pieces of iron metal), sand, poppy seeds, and salt. You have the following materials: water, beaker, funnel, filter paper, magnet, graduated cylinder, tweezers, and hot plate. Using any or all of the given equipment, create a step-by-step method to separate all the parts of the mixture. Write a description of how you would go about separating the mixture. The description must be in order.

in order to remove all products and have them all split to see the separation i would make up a formal lab. i simply can not answer this on the dot but i can lead you in the right direction. fill your funnel with the salt, water, sand, poppy seeds. now in order to seperate it you use the filter paper to get any large sediments out. id use the hot plate last since you want pure water as your end product, and to get rid of salt (or contaminated water in general) you apply heat.

adioabiola adioabiola · Answer 2 · 2021-09-18T08:59:30+02:00

Here, we are required to describe the step-by-step method to separate all the parts of the mixture as described and with materials as in the question above.

To effectively separate the mixture,

First, the magnet is used to remove iron fillings, the magnet is capable of attracting the iron fillings..

Next, there's need to separate sand from salt in the remainder of the mixture, therefore, there's a need to measure water into a measuring cylinder for quantification purposes.

The process above is effective as it allows the salt dissolve in water and the sand is left crystallized in the solution.

The filter paper is then used to line the top of the funnel, while inserting the discharge of the funnel into the beaker and the mixture is allowed to be separated into filtrate and residue. The filtrate in this case is the salt and water solution while the residue is the sand and poppy seeds cake left on the filter paper.

Afterwards, the salt and water solution can be separated by heating the solution using the hotplate so that only the salt portion is left when all of the water has been evaporated.

Next, the poppy seeds can be carefully selected and removed with the use of tweezers which are tools used to pick objects too small to be handpicked by human.

Ultimately, The remaining portion of the mixture is salt.