Friday, January 8, 2010

How do you seperate zinc powder and sodium chloride?

Its simple


Just add water and warm the solution


Make sure that the water is not acidic or basic bcoz as zinc is amphoteric it dissolves in both


Now NaCl dissolves in pure water whereas zinc doesnt


Filter the soln and separate Zn and dry it to get back NaClHow do you seperate zinc powder and sodium chloride?
Add warm water to dissolve the salt and filter off Zn or decant off the salt soln.

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