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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Mixing and separating (Filtration) - Experiment

 Mixing and separating (Filtration) - Experiment 

Aim                                                                                                                                                                     - To separate a solution from a precipitate (precipitate is the name for a solid that forms in a liquid during a chemical reaction).

Using Copper sulfate and Sodium carbonate

Hypothesis                                                                                                                                                            - I think that the colour of a mixture made with Copper sulfate (blue) and Sodium carbonate (clear) will definitely change when mixing the two liquids together. Since we are using two liquids to create a solution and then filtering it, I don't think two liquids can be filtered because a substance can only be filtred if a mixture consists of a solid and a liquid. 

Results

Observation                                                                                                                                                        - When we mixed the two liquids together, the mixture turned into a cloudy darker blue, we started seeing tiny pices of solids form in the liquid and the two liquids became a solid and a liquid. after filtering the mixture separed into a clear liquid and a blue solid.

Conlution                                                                                                                                                            - When mixing Copper sulfate and Sodium carbonate together, the Copper and Sodium switch places which turns the two liquids into Copper carbonate and Sodium sulfate, and since Copper carbonte is insoluable, mixing it with Sodium sulfate and then filtering it can cause the two sun=bstances to separate from eachother.