I thought this lab was cool, I never did anything like this before. I learned a lot of new things. One thing that i learned is how to separate the mixtures. The first thing we did was got a beaker and added sugar, dirt,and then boiling stones. Then we exchanges out ingredients with another group. We decided that there was: iron metels, boiling stones, and calcium chloride. However we didn't know how to figure out how much of the ingredient there was. We tried to separate the mixtures by a magnet and net. I learned that we used a type of filtration.
Kendra and I first did our own mixture we added:
sugar 23.40
dirt 12.98
boiling stones 2.76
The other group got:
sugar: 25.10
Dirt:18
boiling stones: 14
Filtration-sperates solids from liquids by using a parous barrier
Distillation-Separates substance on the basis of the boiling points of the substance
Chromatgraphy-separates substance based on their movements through a special paper
Centrifuation- separates the components of a mixture based on the tendency of each component to travel or be drawn across the surface of another material.
We exchanged with Logan's group. We used a net to try and separate the mixture. It worked pretty good but not good enough we still needed something to get all the iron metal. So Then we used a magnet to separate the iron metel
This is what we got for their mixture:
iron metals 27.26
boiling stones 22.57
calcium chloride 3.04
These were the real result:
iron metal: 23
boiling stones: 14
calcium chloride: 7
