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To separate these, use distillation. Heat up the solution, and the alcohol will rise. Collect the water, and then the alcohol at the other end of the equipment!

The simplest and most common way of separating water and alcohol is through distillation. Multiple distillations can be conducted to obtain a high percentage of alcohol, but will eventually form an azeotropic mixture, which can be separated no further through simple distillations.

By distillation, alcohol boils at a lower temperature(78.1*C) vs. (100*C)for water. By heating it to its boil point you would turn into vapor. With the right equipment you can channel this vapor to another container where can cool and condense back into a liquid, leaving behind only water.

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Here's my suggestion: Pour the full mixture through a filter paper. This will leave the water/alcohol mix in the bottom of the beaker and the iron/sand mix in the filter paper. To separate the iron and sand, I'd wait for the mix to dry and spread the mix out on a flat piece of paper. By using a magnet, you can pick out the iron filings- leaving the sand behind. The water/alcohol mix poses more problems! Hopefully, a layer will form between the two due to different densities etc. If so, one layer can be removed via a pipette. However, a more tedious method could be to... Set up a flask and sit it on a tripod and gauze. Put the mixture in the flask. GENTLY heat the flask with a Bunsen burner, with a distillation tube fitted to the flask ( also known as a reflux condenser). If the mixture isn't allowed to boil, the alcohol will evaporate away, go down the distillation vessel and into a clean beaker, leaving the water behind. Hope this is adequate?!


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Any drug store like CVSOr you could find it at WalgreensYou can buy rubbing alcohol at most any drug store.


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Could baking soda and rubbing alcohol make a balloon inflate?

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