How do you separate salt from a saltwater mixture?
1 Answer
Sep 22, 2016
The saltwater can be distilled to remove the salt from the water.
Explanation:
Heating the salt water will cause the liquid water to vaporize. It can later be cooled, which causes it to condense back to the liquid state.
The salt is a non-volatile solute. This means that the dissolved salt will not varporize (turn into a gas). The salt will be left behind in the container that the saltwater is being heated in.
This video shows how to set up and run a distillation experiment. The red liquid you can see in the flask is saltwater with added food coloring.
Hope this helps!
