A few days ago
Anonymous

your help is greatly appreciated..please????

You find a bottle of sweet smelling liquid on the street and decide to test its purity. You find that it is not a pure substance but you would like to find its composition. what separation techniques could you use to identify the type of mixture found in the bottle????

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A few days ago
embroidery fan

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Heat it & distill off the liquid content.

Look under the microscope to detect different types of solids present in it.

Test the Ph of the liquids and the solids.

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A few days ago
A.V.R.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is probably the best choice.

http://www.pharm.uky.edu/ASRG/HPLC/hplcmytry.html

http://www.forumsci.co.il/HPLC/program.html

http://www.waters.com/watersdivision/ContentD.asp?watersit=JDRS-5LTGBH

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