Saturday 3 October 2020

SEPARATION OF SUBSTANCES CLASS VI CHAPTER V

Introduction-

We see and use a number of substances in our daily life. These are pure as well as impure mixture. Most of them are mixture. E.g.- Air, Water, Milk, etc.The separation of harmful or useless component is done from useful ones by different methods.

Pure Substance-

Those substances which are made up of only one kind of particles are called as pure substances. e.g.- All elements like Hydrogen, Gold, Carbon etc.  and Compounds like Water, Sodium Chloride etc.











Mixture-

Those impure substances in which two or more other substances are found are called mixture.

The ratio of components in the mixture is not fixed. Their individual chemical characteristic is retained. Components of a mixture can be separated. A mixture can be solid, liquid or gas. The mixtures can be –homogeneous or heterogeneous. The components of homogeneous mixture cannot be seen separately. e. g.- Steel, Petroleum, milk, Air etc. The components of heterogeneous mixture can be seen separately. e. g.- Rice and stone, sand and iron etc. etc.


 







Separation of substances-

The separation of substances is done to remove harmful component or unwanted component or to obtain pure or useful component from a mixture. The common methods are-

1. Hand Picking- The process of separating of large unwanted components of the mixture by hand is called handpicking. e. g.- Small pieces of stones from rice, pulses etc.







2. Threshing- The process of separating of grains from their straw and chaff is called threshing. It is done manually by hand or by thresher machines.








3. Winnowing- The process of separating of lighter components from heavier component by using wind is called winnowing. e. g. Husk (lighter) from the grains (heavier).









4. Sieving- The process of separating different size components of a mixture by using sieve is called sieving.  e. g. Tea from tea leaves by sieve, Fine sand from gravels and pebbles of stone by using wire-mesh.








5. Magnetic separation- The process of separating of a non-magnetic component from a magnetic component of the given mixture is called magnetic separation.

e.g.- Separation of iron objects from scrap yard, Iron nails, from sand etc.








6. Sedimentation, Decantation and Filtration- The process of separating of insoluble solids from liquid in its solution is done by sedimentation, decantation and filtration. These are interrelated processes.






The heavier insoluble particles are allowed to settle down at the bottom of container. It is called sediment.

The pouring of liquid part without disturbing the sediment is called decantation.

The process by which very fine insoluble components are removed using filter/ filter paper is called filtration.

7. Evaporation and Condensation- The changing of water into water vapour is called evaporation or vaporization. Evaporation is used to separate water soluble solids from liquids.








Evaporation is used to make salt from salty water. The liquid evaporates and heavy solid component is left behind.

Condensation is changing of water vapour into liquid form by cooling. The solid impurities are left behind on evaporation. Then pure liquid is obtained from this vapour by condensation.

8. Centrifugation or Churning- The fine insoluble solid is separated from liquid-solid mixture by rotating at very high speed is called centrifugation. e. g.- Butter from milk, drying of wet clothes by squeezing water in washing machine, blood cells from plasma etc.



 















Saturated Solution-

The solute and solvent together is called as solution. e. g.- Sugar is a solute and water is a solvent that together forms a solution.

Solute (Sugar) + Solvent (Water) = Solution

If more solute is added in the solution it will become denser. A solution in which no more solute can be dissolved is called saturated solution. The solute will be seen more at the base of container.





















On increasing temperature of saturated solution, more solutes can be added. On the other hand on decreasing the temperature of saturated solution more solutes cannot be added.  

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