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Separation and Identification - Design Your Own Experiment

Design Your Own Experiment

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Separation techniques and identification are used in many professions for a variety of reasons. Wherever there is a mixture, there is some way to separate it.

Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher to learn more about separation and identification. You can examine the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, listed in For More Information, which provides detailed tables of chemicals' behaviors and characteristics. Using this book as a guide could provide ideas on how to separate and identify substances. If you construct a project that uses heat or flames, make sure you have adult supervision.

Steps in the Scientific Method

To conduct an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise, you might not be sure what question you are answering, what you...

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