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Chapter 5 Separation of Substances
Chapter 5 Separation of Substances
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NAME OF THE CHAPTER:-
SEPARATION OF SUBSTANCES
CLASS : VI
In our daily life, there are many
instances when we notice a substance
being separated from a mixture of
materials.
Tea leaves are separated from the
liquid with a strainer, while preparing
tea.
strainer
Grains are separated from stalks, while
harvesting.
Milk or curd is churned to separate the
butter .
Perhaps you might have eaten salted
daliya or poha. If you found that it had
chillies in it, you may have carefully
taken them out before eating.
SEPARATING
GRAINS AFTER CHURNING
POHA WITH CHILLIES
HARVESTING
Suppose you are given a basket
containing different types of fruits
and asked to separate them. What
would you do?
Pick out one kind and place them in a
separate container, right? Seems
easy, but what if the materials we
want to separate are much smaller
than mango or guava?
From the above examples it is clearly
known that- why do we separate
substances
Hand picking
Threshing
Winnowing
Sieving
Sedimentation, decantation and
Filtration
Evaporation and Condensation
HAND PICKING
Direction of Air
soop
Husk
Grains
Sieving
Sometimes, we may wish to prepare
a dish with flour. We need to remove
impurities and bran that may be
present in it. What do we do? We use
a sieve and pour the flour into it.
This method of separation of different
sized particles of a solid mixture is
called as Sieving.
Sieving
Sieving
SEDIMENTATION DECANTATION
The same principle is used
for separating a mixture of
two liquids that do not mix
with each other. For
example, oil and water from
their mixture can be
separated by this process. If
a mixture of such liquids is
allowed to stand for some
time, they form two
separate layers. The
component that forms the
top layer can then be
separated by decantation.
`FILTRATION
Sometimes, water supplied through
taps may be muddy. The water
collected from ponds or rivers may also
be muddy, especially after rains. Let us
see if we can use some method of
separation to remove insoluble
impurities like soil from the water.
If the water is still muddy, impurities
can be separated by a filter that has
even smaller pores.
A filter paper is one such filter that
has very fine pores in it. shows the
steps involved in using a filter paper.
A filter paper folded in the form of a
cone is fixed onto a funnel .
The mixture is then poured on the
filter paper. Solid particles in the
mixture do not pass through it and
remain on the filter.
FILTRATION
Filtration can be used to separate
components of mixture of an
insoluble solid and a liquid. Fruit and
vegetable juices are usually filtered
before drinking to separate the seeds
and solid particles of pulp
EVAPORATION
Add two spoons of salt to water in a
beaker and stir it well. Do you see
any change in the colour of water?
Can you see any salt in the beaker,
after stirring? Heat the beaker
containing the salt water. Let the
water boil away.
What is left in the beaker? In this
activity, we used the process of
evaporation, to separate a mixture of
water and salt.
EVAPORATION
Evaporation is the process in which a
liquid gets converted into vapour.
Evaporation can be used to separate
a solid dissolved in a liquid.
Obtaining salt from seawater
EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION
Water vapour
Condensed
droplets of
water
USE OF MORE THAN ONE METHOD OF
SEPARATION
Ex : SALT SOLUTION
Things To Think About…..
Find the solutions for the following
1. How will you separate husk or dirt particles
from a given sample of pulses before
cooking?
2. Is it possible to separate sugar mixed with
wheat flour? If yes, how will you do it?
3. How will you separate sand and water from
their mixture?
4. Collect and write down the information where
the processes like sedimentation, decantation
and filtrations(all three) are used in any two
activities you come across in your daily life.
5. Why the rag pickers handle a stick with
magnet at the base?
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