Experiment: Mixture Seperation

Objective: To separate a mixture of sand, salt, and iron.

Materials:

• Mixture of sand, salt, and iron
• Magnet
• Plastic bag
• coffee filters
• water
• Paper
• Lab materials (beakers, stirrers, hot plates, funnels, etc)

Procedure:

1. Arrange materials
2. Calculate the mass of the mixture
3. Remove the iron
1. Wrap the magnet with the plastic bag
2. Put the wrapped magnet in to the three substance mixture
3. Remove the magnet from the bag over a piece of paper
4. Repeat step 3a-b until there is no more iron in the mixture
4. Remove the sand
1. Mix the two substance mixture with water
2. Using the coffee filter, placed in a funnel, placed in a beaker, filter the sand from the salt-water
5. Remove the salt
1. Using the hot plate evaporate the water off the salt
6. Calculate the mass of each individual substance
7. Compare masses of the individual substances to the total mass of the mixture

Analysis:

Mixture- 14.15g

Iron- 6.45g

Sand- 3.8g

Salt- 3.9g