Separation Lab w/ Colors!!

So we did another separation lab and this one was way cooler!!! We decorated amazing water filter paper. Then we poked a hole in the middle and stuck a paper towel through the hole. The paper towel acted as a post to keep the whole piece of filter paper from falling in the water. Then we put the paper towel in the water and let science do the work!

We waited...

And Waited... 

And waited some more...

and finally!!!

The chromatograph was pretty much all the way done. 

Without even realizing it we used chromatography to separate the colors. Other examples of separation are filtration: when you use a filter to separate the mixture.

This works great with different sizes of hard particles.

Distillation is used for separating mixtures based on differences in the conditions required to change the phase of the components of the mixture. To separate a liquid mixture, the liquid could be heated to force the components with different boiling points, into the gas phase. The gas can then be condensed back into its liquid form and collected.
Double Distillation is when you repeat the process on the collected liquid to improve the purity of that particular product. You can do the reverse process to liquefy components changing a liquid's temperature and/or pressure.

Centrifugation is when they take the tubes and put them in the centrifuge, which viciously spins them, causing the components to separate due to the force of the spinning motion.