Separation Lab

For this experiment, my partner was Ashley. We traded our mixture (ours containing sand, calcium chloride, and suger) with Joel, Sam, and Damien for theirs. First, we measured the "strange substance" and subtracted the original weight of the beaker it was in, getting 413.1g. After this, we sifted the mixture which separated sand (41.3g), and iron (154.9g) from the calcium. Once the calcium was out, we put it in water so it could melt to separate the liquids from solids and used filter paper. From there, we measured that to be 216.9g. Then we went through the sand and iron mixture with a magnet to separate those two and get our weight results (as seen earlier in this blog!) soon after.