How do I separate a misture of salt, sand, sawdust and iron fillings?

Question

I can only use tirrell burner, rubber tubing, evaporating dish, 4 beakers, filter paper, a funnel, watch glass, scoopula, forceps, stirring rod, distilled water, wash bottle, magnet, tape, and zip-block bags. Please help all substance must be pure and placed in plastic bags. I AM DESPERATE!

Answer 1

Here's the receipe:

1. Use Magnet to isolate the iron fillings.
2. Use Water + Bottle + Stirring Rod to dissolve the salt
3. Use Forceps to pick out the Sawdust
4. Use Funnel to the sand.
5. Use evaporating Dish + Burner to turn the salt water into salt

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Look for a question in your book that is similar and follow the pattern. Pretty sure the magnet might extract the iron though. The forceps will hold something over the burner. Think about the weight of the different substances. Last thing, if the salt, sand and sawdust were all in water, wouldn't the sawdust float? Maybe you could scoop it. Then you sand and salt to deal with, which would be in the water still. Water will eventually evaporate leaving the salt behind. Get the sand out of the water and I think you have it!

I don't know the whole answer but that stuff seems to make sense.

Mixture, fyi, not misture! Maybe that was a typo :)

Answer 3

see,first to sepearte the iron fillings,u use the MAGNET so that the iron fillings will be attracted to it.
next u use a BURNER,DISTILLED WATER,A FUNNEL.and boil the mixture with water in a funnel then u pass the vapours thru the breakers and collect themm in a wash bolltle. then lets the vapours cool down and u will get ur SALT.
use the water containing mixture(from funnel) and filetrer using the FILTER PAPER. u will get sand in that filter paper.
then i dont know abt saw dust.

Answer 4

Very, Very Carefully I am sure!!!

Magnet the Iron Fillings out FIRST
Filter the Sawdust out
Evaporate the SALT from the SAND

This is just a GUESS. I have NO clue as to REALLY how you would do this!

Answer 5

use the magnite for the iron use the water for the salt mix it in the salt will dissolve strain it through the filter then boil the watter and the salt will be left then the saw dust should be all that reamins

Answer 6

You're supposed to do your own homework, not have others do it for you. Cheating is not learning.

Try thinking about the properties of each substance and how they differ from each other.

Hint: The water is a critical ingredient.

Answer 7

No, yet I once by coincidence poured weightloss plan Pepsi into my cereal as a change of milk. :D It changed into undesirable, and that i did not comprehend till after my first bit., xP i didn't want to waste the Pepsi or cereal, so I only ate it. C: (((Hugs)))

Answer 8

omgsh are you from vhs from the scv?