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Why common salt cannot be purified by sublimation?

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Because salt doesn't sublime !

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Why common salt cannot purified by sublimation?

vapour pressure of common salt is higher... hence it cannot be sublimed...


How ammonium chloride is separated from common salt?

sublimation


Is KCL and NaCl is separated by sublimation?

Sodium chloride is not purified by sublimation.


What water salt or purified helps water?

purified


What water salt or purified helps plants grow?

purified


Why might the purified salt still not be safe to eat?

Purified salt may not be safe to eat because it may have the bacteria of the rock salt on it still. To make it pure you should boil the bacteria off the salt after it has been purified.


What is purified salt?

Salt that has had any contaminates removed.


Does purified or tap water hold more salt?

It all depends on what you mean. Tap water has more salt than purified water but purified water can hold more salt if salt is added. There is more room, so to speak, for the salt ions to fit into a container.


Why should you use sublimation to separate the mixture of salt and ammonium chloride?

Because ammonium chloride can be removed from salt by sublimation (at a given temperature).


How can you separate ammonium chloride from salt?

By sublimation


What are the differences between the appearance of rock salt and purified salt?

Rock salt (impure salt) is frequently colored.


How can you separate salt and camphor?

Camphor is a volatile solid i.e. its vapour pressure becomes equal to the atmospheric pressure much below the melting point. But, common salt is non-volatile. Hence, camphor may be very easily separated from common salt by a physical process, SUBLIMATION! props to yahoo answers