Seperation
Hazards / Safety
Equipment
Application of Separation
Common Knowledge
100

This technique is used in chemistry to separate solid particles from a liquid by pouring it through a filter.

Filtration

100

This should be tied back or secured to avoid accidents when working with open flames or chemicals.

Your Hair

100

When using a bunsen burner, what colour is the safety flame?

The Yellow Flame

100

Name 3 things used for filtering!

Examples: Flyscreen, oil filter, pasta strainer, etc.

100

When you wake up in the morning and there is water on your windows, what is this called?

Condensation

200

Used to separate mixtures of dyes or pigments, this process relies on the movement of a solvent on paper or a plate.

Chromatography

200

You should use this tool to handle hot glassware instead of bare hands.

Tongs

200

What do you use to hold hot test tubes?

Tongs

200

This technique, used to separate components of a solution based on their boiling points, is often used to purify water or separate alcohol from a mixture.

Distillation

200

What shape are the filtering holes in a fly screen?

Square

300
If you were to seperate sediment (rocks) into different sizes, what equipment would you use to seperate them into 4 different sizes?

Sieve 

300

To avoid contamination and accidents, you should never ____________________ in the lab, and you should avoid doing this with chemicals.

Eat or Drink
300

This piece of equipment is used to see view cells?

Microscope

300

In chemistry, this technique involves separating pigments from ink by applying the mixture to paper and using a solvent.

Chromatography

300

When we use a stiring rod to slow down the flow of water when pouring, what is this called?

Decanting

400

If you had Salt and Sand in water and you needed to seperate them all, what two separation techniques would you use?

Filtration and Evaporation

400

If you get Copper Sulphate on your hands, you must wash it off immediately, why is this?

Makes you spend the day on the toilet

400

When heating glassware in an experiment, what piece of equipment is used to safety heat the glassware and prevent it from breaking?

Gaze Mat

400

At a sewage plant, water travels slowly in big round pools of water to seperate particles, what is this called?

Sedimentation

400

Name 5 things in your home that would be used for filtering?

Washing machine, Dishwasher, Flyscreen, Sink Hole, Coffee Filters, Air Conditioner, Pool Filter, Kitchen Range Hood Filters, Face Masks.

500

This method is used in biology and chemistry labs to separate substances by spinning samples at high speed.

Centrifugation

500

What would you use if you had something irritate your eyes during a practical?

Emergency Eye Wash

500

What is another name for a conical flask?

Erlenmeyer flask

500

To reduce salt concentration in seawater, this process, which removes dissolved salts, is applied to produce fresh drinking water.

desalination (or reverse osmosis)?

500

Why do the pigments in a permeant marker seperate on a paper strip at different points?

Relative Stickiness
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