Separation of a Mixture of Solids Lab Report Assistant
To begin this experiment I got out me scale and little plastic dish and the mixture of substances. I weighed the dish separate and found it to weigh 0.5g. Next I added the mixture to my dish and found the combined weight of the dish and the mixture was 5.5g. I next cut a square sheet of paper and weighed it to find it weighed 1g. I emptied the contents of my dish onto another sheet of paper in a very thin layer. I wrapped the magnet in a sandwich bag and ran it over the mixture to separate the iron. I then carefully pulled the magnet away from the sandwich bag and let the iron fall onto the square piece of paper. I repeated this 3 times to ensure I had all of the iron from my sample. I then weighed the square piece of paper and iron shavings and got a weight of 2.2g. I discarded the iron and moved the remaining mixture into the glass beaker. I added 50mL of distilled water to the mixture. I then lit my burner and moved the stand over the flame and set the beaker with the mixture over the flame. I stirred the mixture several time and when I began to see small bubbles forming I poured the liquid into a paper cup. I then added 20mL of distilled water back into the beaker with the now sand and repeated setting it over the flame until a near boil. I then added this water to the other water in the paper cup and set the sand in the beaker over the