Solvent extraction
Integrated Science · Grade 7 · about 40 minutes
A second liquid pulls out the solute. Kitchen cousins: tea, coffee, groundnut oil. Shake, wait, take the layer you need.
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- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
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- Homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
- Solid-solid and solid-liquid mixtures
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- Solute, solvent and solution
- Why we separate mixtures
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- Crystallisation
- Simple distillation
- Fractional distillation
- Sublimation
- Solvent extraction
- Paper chromatography
- Matching method to mixture
- Kitchen and home applications
- Farm and cereal applications
- Industry, water and fuel applications
- Sharing tasks and appreciating separation