Chem Stuff Flashcards
Filtration
Separation of liquids from solids (mechanical mixtures only)
Distillation
- A liquid in liquid solution is heated, lowest boiling point boils first and is collected
- Liquid in solid may be distilled to collect the liquid.
Evaporation
Solid in liquid solution, boiling away the liquid leaving the solid.
Solvent Extraction:
- Extraction of solid from mechanical mixture (dissolve certain solids)
- Extraction of dissolved liquid or solid from a liquid solution (add solvent)
Recrystallization
Solid in a liquid-solid solution is separated in a pure crystalline state.
Gravity separation
Separates desired solids from a mechanical mixture based on their density
Chromatography
Separate small amounts of solid in liquid solution containing 2 or more dissolved solids.
What happens when solids melt into liquids?
- Allows molecules to break out of solid phase
- molecules possess increasing amounts of vibrational and translational energy
When liquids boil into gas?
- Allows molecules to break out of the liquid phase
- Possess increasing amount of vibrational, rotational, and translational energy
Endothermic
Getting hotter
Exothermic
Getting colder.
Avogadro’s Hypothesis?
Equal volume of 2 gases have equal number of molecules.
Hand separation:
A mechanical mixture (solids)