Chemistry- Separating substances

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What is a mixture?
It contains more than one substance that are not chemically combined
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What is a solute?
Something that is dissolved
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Why is the solubility of every substance different?
Because all particles are different
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What happens to solubility when temperature rises?
It increases
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What does saturated mean?
A solution can't dissolve more solute at that temperature
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What is a solution in water called?
Aqueous solution
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What does volatile mean?
A liquid that evaporates easily
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What does ethanol dissolve?
Glues, printing inks
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Why are some substances volatile?
The forces between the particles are very weak
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What is a pure substance?
It doesn't have any other substances mixed with it
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Why do some substances need to be pure?
Impurities can be harmful to humans
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Which substances need to be pure?
Medical drugs and food flavourings
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What is an impurity?
An unwanted substance mixed with the substance you want
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How to check for purity?
Check melting and boiling points because a pure substance has a sharp definite pair of them
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What happens when an impurity is present?
The melting point falls and the boiling point rises; melting and boiling occurs over a range of temperatures
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What is used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid?
Filtration
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What is the trapped solid in filtration?
Residue
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What is the clear liquid from filtration called?
Filtrate
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What is used to separate a soluble solid from a liquid?
Crystallisation or evaporation of the solvent
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Why is evaporation of the solvent used instead of crystallisation?
For some substances solubility changes very little so there is no point is crystallisation
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How to separate two solids in a mixture?
Choose a solvent that dissolves only one of them and remove the other by filtration
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What is used to separate a solvent from a mixture?
Simple distillation
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What is the point of a condenser?
To help vapour condense
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What is used to separate a mixture of gases?
Fractional distillation
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Why does fractional distillation work?
It takes advantage of the different boiling points
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What do the vapours in fractional distillation go through before they reach the condenser?
Glass beads
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Where is fractional distillation used?
In petroleum industry to refine crude oil, in production of ethanol, to separate the gases in air
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What is used to separate pigments and amino acids?
Paper chromatography
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Why do the substances in paper chromatography separate?
They have different solubility
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What does the solubility depend on in paper chromatography?
The paper and the solvent
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Which substance will travel further on the chromatogram?
The most soluble one
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What is paper chromatography used for?
Identification/separation/purification of substances, checking purity, detective work
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What is the solvent for amino acids?
Water+ethanoic acid+butanol
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What is used to make amino acids visible?
Locating or fixating agent
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How to find the Rf value?
Distance moved by substance divided by distance moved by solvent
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What is the Rf value for the same substance?
It is the same under the same conditions and the same solvent
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What two phases are there in chromatography?
Stationary and mobile
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