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How are sand and salt different?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Sand is made up of silicon dioxide and (table)salt is made up of sodium chloride. There are many types of salt (eg. potassium flouride, magnesium chloride), but they are mainly formed when a metal reacts with a halogen.

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How will you separate a mixture of salt and sand will it be different if the mixture consists of iron filling instead of salt explain?

To separate a mixture of salt and sand, you can use the method of dissolving the salt in water and then filtering the sand out. If the mixture consists of iron filings instead of salt, you can use a magnet to attract and separate the iron filings from the sand. This method works since iron is magnetic while sand is not.


What would be theChemical equation for separating sand and salt?

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What is the process to separate sand and salt mixture?

Since sand is not soluble in water and salt is, you can add water to a mixture of sand and salt, and then pour away the salty water into a different container, leaving behind the sand. If you need to recover the salt as a solid substance, you can boil away the water, or if you are not in a hurry, just let it evaporate.


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Is sand and salt mixture a mixture of homogeneous?

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How can you separate salt and sand?

You can dissolve the sand and salt into the water. when this happens the salt will be dissolved and the sand will stay at the bottom. then get some filter paper and pour the mixture through it. the dissolved salt and water will go through leaving the sand. there you have the sand aside. to get the salt aside just boil the water until it evaporates completely and you will be left will your salt. then you have your sand and salt separated. by sifting it


If you have white sand and table salt how do you separate each component without altering its identity?

You toss the sand and salt in a filter that will not allow the sand through, Then rinse the sand with clean water until all of the salt has been dissolved and removed from the sand, Then evaporate the water and you will have the salt separated from the sand.


What method will you use to separate salt and sand?

If you dissolve the salt and the sand in water the sand will stay beind and the salt would dissappear. But if you want the salt back you can evaporate it off, by boiling the water. (with the dissolved salt in it)


What does undissolve mean?

Undissolved salt is salt that has not been dissolved in water, e.g rock salt or cooking salt.


What happen when sand and salt mix?

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Does salt dissolves when you mix with sand?

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A container contains a mixture of sand salt and pebbles.how can each substance be separated from the other?

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