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At the simplest, there are two steps;
1. Boil water
2. Collect the steam
In practice, there is a little more to it. It is difficult to collect water vapor, or steam; it is much easier to collect liquid water, so you will need a way to change the water vapor back into liquid water. You do that by condensing the steam back into water.
This turns out to be pretty easy to do; water vapor will condense into liquid on the outside of a cold glass if there is ANY water vapor in the air, as everybody who has held a cold drink on a hot day already knows.
If you are out camping, it is easy to make a "solar still" and get clean, fresh water from any kind of damp muck. Dig a pit in the ground about 18 inches deep where the sun can shine on it. Put any sort of damp material - green leaves, mud, dirty water, almost anything wet - and put it in the hole. Place a clean empty container such as a metal pot or bowl in the middle of the pit. Cover the pit with a plastic sheet; a tarp, a plastic trash bag, something to cover the entire pit. It doesn't have to be airtight or watertight. Place a small stone in the plastic sheet right over the pot.
The sun will shine into the pit and heat up the wet stuff in the pit. Some of the water will evaporate. The vapor will hit the plastic sheet, and condense, and run down to the bottom point in the sheet where the stone is, and fresh water will drip into the pot.
If the goal is to collect the salt, that's even easier; put a shallow pan of salt water in a the sun. Wait until tomorrow. The salt will remain, while the water will have evaporated.
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How would you separate the components of a glycerol table salt and water solution?
Boiling off the water from a salt solution will separate the solid salt and water (which can be collected by a condenser).
Why do you separate a salt solution using boiling instead of evaporation?
Boiling a salt solution will have the same effect as natural evaporation, but will be much faster. The water will boil off and leave the salt behind.
What are the steps to Separate a Mixture?
It all depends on the substance and its physical properties. For example, salt water can be separated by boiling the water and letting the salt remain.
How do you boil salt and sand to separate them?
Salt will dissolve in water, and the more heat you add, the more salt you can dissolve, i.e. boiling the water. Sand however, is not water soluble, therefore, it will not dissolve. Let the water boil and dissolve the salt, then drain the water over a semi-permeable cloth so the sand is trapped and the water (and salt) drains through.
How might you separate a mixture of a salt and fine sand?
Salt dissolves in water, sand does not. Mix water with the solids, pour off the water, and sand is left behind, Evaporate the water by boiling it, and the salt will be left.
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)
After Felix adds salt to the boiling water what will he have in the pot?
Salt water, but the water will stop boiling because upon adding the salt it raised the boiling point of water.
How old is the method of removing salt from water through boiling?
what is the cost center
How do you separate water from a salt solution?
By boiling (distillation) or freezing (crystallization). Methods for producing drinkable water from salt solution include Reverse Osmosis and Ion Exchange.
Does salt lower the boiling point?
Yes, Salt also lowers the freezing point of water, and lowers the boiling point of water. Add salt to a boiling pot of water and it immediately boils faster/harder at the location that the Salt hit the water.
How does salt affect the boiling point of salt water?
by incresening the destiny of the product of water
What do you produce when you mix salt into boiling water?
If you're talking about regular old table salt, then your answer is salt water--specifically boiling salt water.
