Question

How can you separate ammonium chloride and sodium chloride? Explain briefly.

Answer 1

1.Take a mixture of ammonium chloride an sodium chloride in a China dish.

2.Cover the China dish with a inverted glass funnel.

3.Put a cotton plug on the mouth of funnel.

4. Keep the mixture over the burner and heat.

5.Ammonium chloride being sublimiable will sublime and deposit on the cold inner walls of the glass funnel and sodium chloride will remain behind in a China dish.