water is a suitable solvent for crystallizing almost all the compounds as far as the purification of NaCl is concerned NaCl is highly soluble in water so it is difficult to crystallize it out may the impurities too crystallize out.
A process of repeated crystallization/recrystallization is useful.
A good method of refining NaCl is repeated crystallization/recrystallization.
This is face-centered cubic crystallization.
NaCl hasn't water of crystallization; but the strange hydrate NaCl.2H2O, obtained in special conditions, is known.
Two methods are: - distillation - crystallization/recrystallization
Vacuum crystallization of salt is used in salt processing plants.
NaCl salt does not contain water of crystallization.
Sodium chloride is not purified by sublimation.
A good method of refining NaCl is repeated crystallization/recrystallization.
Halite (NaCl) is extracted by mining or from seawater by crystallization/recrystallization.
The crystallization structure of sodium chloride is face-centered cubic.
- The water is released by evaporation and an impure NaCl is obtained. - The impure NaCl is dissolved. - The solution is filtered. - The solution is refined by repeated processes of crystallization and recrystallization.