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Making Salt From Rock Salt Bigger Font
Making Salt From Rock Salt Bigger Font
Rock salt is a MIXTURE of solid ROCK and SALT. Salt is mined in the form of ROCK SALT. Rock
is INSOLUBLE and salt is SOLUBLE.
Apparatus
Method
1. Crush your sample of rock salt to POWDER using a PESTLE and MORTAR.
4. Carefully POUR the contents of the BEAKER into the funnel to FILTER
the mixture.
2. What happened to the rock salt when you added the water?
4. When the mixture was filtered, what was left in the filter paper?
6. Lynne says “To get a purer sample of salt, you should use distilled water
not tap water”. Is she right and why?