Monica a form one student decides to separate powdered calcium carbonate from powdered calcium chloride by shaking the mixture with water and then filtering. Would...

      

Monica a form one student decides to separate powdered calcium carbonate from powdered calcium chloride by shaking the mixture with water and then filtering. Would this procedure succeed? Explain your answer.

  

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Kavungya
This procedure would succeed. Calcium carbonate is insoluble in water whereas calcium chloride is very soluble. On filtering the mixture, calcium carbonate would remain on the filter paper whereas calcium chloride solution would pass through.
Kavungya answered the question on March 25, 2019 at 07:28


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