6. 2.2.1 PURE SUBSTANCES AND
IMPURITIES
•A pure substances has no
other substance mixed with
it
•Impurity : An unwanted
substance, mixed with the
substance you want
7. How can you tell if a substance is pure?
• Simple method; Check the melting and boiling points
• A pure substances has a definite, sharp melting and boiling point.
(Each substances have different mp and bp)
• When a substances contains an impurity:
- its melting point falls and its boiling point rises
- it melts and boils over a range of temperatures, not sharply
• The more impurity there is:
- the bigger the change in melting and boiling points
- the wider the temperature range over which melting and boiling
occur
8. How to purify mixtures?
Method of separation Used to separate..
Filtration , Evaporation , Decanting ,
centrifugation
A solid from a liquid
Crystallisation A solute from its solution
Evaporation A solute from its solution
Simple distillation A solvent from a solution
Fractional distillation Mixture of liquids that have different
boiling points
Paper chromatography Different substances from a solution
17. silica
• filter
• wash the residue
• dry the residue
water
• heat the filtrate
• condense the vapour
sodium carbonate
• heat to dryness / no liquid left
• (then solid) sodium carbonate is left
OR
• heat until saturated
• then cool to crystallise / leave to crystallise
18. method
• heat the salt through simple distillation
observation
• drops of water / condensation
• colour change :blue solid becomes paler
test pure water
• boiling point;100 °C
**condenser shown on diagram [2 marks]