SEPARATING MIXTURES

OF SOLIDS
• The separation of a solid from a mixture of solids
depends largely on the particular substance being
purified
• Some difference in properties helps the solids to be
separated from the others
SEPARATIONS BASED ON DIFFERENCES IN
DENSITY

• Panning-it is a separation technique for gold for eg-In

Amazonia,riverbeds are mechanically sifted (vacuum
cleaned) to collect gold dust.These methods are depended
on gold being denser than the other substances in the
river.This method can also be used in purifying the ores of
zinc and copper.
SEPARATION BASED ON MAGNETIC PROPERTIES

• Iron, Cobalt, Nickel and other magnetic substances can be

easily separated from non magnetic substances by just
keeping an magnet over the mixture
• For eg- In the Amazonia gold diggings, magnets are used to
clean away the iron containing, red brown dust from the
powdered gold.