Chapter 12

Experimental Techniques and Chemical Analysis

Measuring, separating mixtures and testing for purity — with an interactive exercise.

Experimental Techniques and Analysis covers measuring and separating substances.

Filtration separates an insoluble solid from a liquid; distillation gets a pure liquid (like water) from a solution; chromatography separates coloured substances. A pure substance has a sharp, fixed melting point.

Remember

  • Filter → solid from liquid · Distil → pure liquid · Chromatography → dyes.
  • Pure substances have sharp melting points.

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