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Briefly explain how you would separate a mixture of sodium chloride and iodine in the laboratory

      

Briefly explain how you would separate a mixture of sodium chloride and iodine in the laboratory

  

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- Place the mixture in a beaker.
- Place the beaker over a tripod stand.
- Place a cold watch glass on top of the beaker containing the mixture.
- Heat the beaker containing the mixture gently.
- A purple vapour is observed rising from the mixture and cools on the cold watch glass to form shiny black solid. The solid is iodine.
- Sodium chloride is left in the beaker.
- The cold watch glass is used to cool the vapour.

Faimus answered the question on December 3, 2017 at 18:55


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