Question

One way to separate salt and tea leaves based on the knowledge of physical properties of matter

Answer 1

Introduction
Have you ever mixed sand and salt together and wondered how you could separate them again? If you had to separate them, would you have nightmares of tiny tweezers, a magnifying glass and hours spent picking grains of salt and sand apart? Don't be afraid, there is another way! Using the differences in solubility between salt and sand, you can find the simple "solution" to this problem.

Background
Chemistry for the most part is the study of matter and how it behaves and interacts with other kinds of matter. Everything around us is made of matter. One important property that matter has is solubility. We think about this when we dissolve something in water. If a chemical is soluble in water, then when you add it to water it will dissolve, or disappear. If it is not soluble, then the chemical will not dissolve and you can see it, either suspended in the water or at the bottom of the container.

When a chemical is dissolved in a liquid, such as water, it creates a solution. In a solution, the liquid is the solvent, and the soluble chemical that is added to and dissolves in the liquid is the solute. Even though a solvent dissolves a solute, the latter blends in but is still there. If you evaporated all of the liquid from the solution, you would be left with the dry solute again. In fact, this is how salt is processed in giant salt flats where seawater is slowly evaporated, leaving behind huge amounts of sea salt.

Materials
•    Strainer (optional)
•    Salt
•    Sand
•    A napkin
•    Magnifying glass
•    Two glass jars with lids
•    Measuring cup
•    Water
•    Teakettle or pot
•    Two spoons
•    Stove and oven
•    Funnel
•    Coffee filter
•    Spoon
•    Oven mitts

Preparation
•    If the sand has a lot of debris in it, use a strainer to strain out the large debris and purify the sand.
•    Place some salt and sand separately on a napkin and, using the magnifying glass, closely examine the salt and sand. What do you notice? How does the size, shape and color of the grains of sand compare with the grains of salt?
•    Be careful when using the stove and oven, and when handling the boiling water. An adult should help you with these steps.

Procedure
•    In a glass jar add one quarter cup of salt and one quarter cup of sand. Put the lid on the jar and shake until the salt and sand are completely mixed together.*
•    Using the magnifying lens, closely examine the mixture. What do you notice? Can you still see the individual grains of salt and sand?
•    Fill the teakettle or pot with at least one cup of water. Heat the water on the stove until it is boiling. Be careful when using the stove and handling the boiling water. An adult should help you with this.
•    Very carefully pour one half cup of boiling water into the jar and stir the mixture with a spoon. Be careful when handling the boiling water, which will make the jar become very hot! (Caution: You should pour the water very slowly, so the glass jar does not shatter from a rapid change in temperature.)
•    Using the magnifying lens, closely examine the solution. What do you notice? Can you still see the individual grains of salt and sand?
•    Place the coffee filter in the funnel and place the funnel on top of the second glass jar. Slowly pour the entire solution over the filter. As the solution seeps through the filter, let it collect in the second jar.
•    Looking at the coffee filter, what do you see? Carefully scrape of.

Answer 2

From the mixture of salt and tea leaves we can easily separate them from each other by using the physical property of dissolvable into water.

Salt is easily dissolvable into water that's why if we put that mixture into water then the salt will be dissolved and then we can easily drain the salty water from the tea leaves.

At last we can heat and evaporate that salty water solution to get back the previous salt in solid state.