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How would you separate iron from tin?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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This can happen through a metallic bond of two metallic elements. Metallic bonding is the electromagnetic interaction between delocalized electrons, called conduction electrons, and the metallic nuclei within metals. When seen as the sharing of 'free' electrons among a lattice of positively-charged metal ions, metallic bonding may be compared to that within molten salts, but this simplistic view holds for very few metals. In a more quantum mechanical view the conduction electrons divide their density equally over all atoms that function as neutral (non-charged) entities. Metallic bonding accounts for many physical characteristics of metals, such as strength, malleability, ductility, conduction of heat, and electricity, opacity and lustre.

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Iron is magnetic, whereas Tin is not. Just put a strong magnet near the mixture, and all Iron will stick to it. There might be other methods as well, but this is the first thing that comes to my mind.

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