Separation of matter - class-X

Methods for separating mixtures including evaporation, sublimation, filtration, distillation, centrifugation, and decantation

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the constituents of a solid-liquid mixture have different masses, then we can separate them using:

  1. sublimation
  2. centrifugation
  3. winnowing
  4. evaporation
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

State a method to separate a solid-liquid mixture containing a soluble solid in the liquid components.

  1. Fraction distillation
  2. Filtration
  3. Sedimentation
  4. Distillation
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which method is used to separate salt from the salt water?

  1. Filtration
  2. Distillation
  3. Evaporation
  4. Sedimentation
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Select the methods to separate a solid-liquid mixture containing an insoluble solid in the liquid components. 

  1. Sedimentation
  2. Filtration
  3. Distillation
  4. Fractional distillation
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following can be used for Solid-Solid mixture separation?

  1. Mechanical separation
  2. Magnetic separation
  3. Gravity separation
  4. All of above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Water is said to be permanently hard when it contains:

  1. chloride and sulphates of Mg and Ca
  2. bicarbonate of Na and K
  3. carbonate of Na and K
  4. none of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which technique is used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water?

  1. Decantation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Distillation
  4. Fractional distillation
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____ is a method of separating suspended particles of a substance from liquid.

  1. Chromatography
  2. Centrifugation
  3. Distillation
  4. Magnetic separation
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When an organic compound is present in an aqueous medium and is less soluble in any organic solvent then it is separated by?

  1. Continuous extraction
  2. Distillation
  3. Chromatography
  4. Sublimation
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the substance is purified by sublimation?

  1. Naphthalene
  2. Benzoic acid
  3. Camphor
  4. All of these
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation cannot be used for purification of:

  1. urea
  2. camphor
  3. benzoic acid
  4. napthalene
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process by which a solid changes directly into gas is called:

  1. decantation
  2. sublimation
  3. condensation
  4. sedimentation
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the substance that shows sublimation:

  1. Naphthalene
  2. Toluene
  3. Kerosene
  4. Water
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How will you obtain common salt from sea water?

  1. Filtration
  2. Evaporation
  3. Sedimentation
  4. Handpicking
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To separate ammonium chloride from common salt, we use:

  1. filtration
  2. sedimentation
  3. sieving
  4. sublimation
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaporation is used to seperate:

  1. salt from water
  2. pepper and sand
  3. sand and water
  4. camphor and $NaCl$
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Copper sulphate dissolved in water can be recovered as solid by:

  1. Evaporation
  2. Filtration
  3. Centrifugation
  4. All of above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process of _________ is used to separate the component from a solid-solid mixture which _________ on heating and the other component being non-volatile.

  1. sublimation, soluble
  2. sublimation, sublimes
  3. chromatography, soluble
  4. centrifugation, sublimes
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Camphor can be separated using :

  1. distillation
  2. sublimation
  3. fractional distillation
  4. centrifugation
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The salt can be easily obtained from the salty water by the process of

  1. Evaporation
  2. Chromatography
  3. Crystallization
  4. Both a and b
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

 Sublimation is a technique that helps chemists to:

  1. break
  2. purify
  3. melt
  4. freeze
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation requires additional energy and is an:

  1. endothermic change
  2. exothermic change
  3. both a and b
  4. none of above
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Solid which undergoes sublimation is :

  1. argon
  2. iodine
  3. sodium chloride
  4. water
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Statement I: Evaporation is an endothermic process.
Statement II: Heat is absorbed as a substance cools.

  1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I.
  2. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct, but Statement II is not the correct explanation of Statement I.
  3. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
  4. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A mixture of glucose water can be separated by the method of evaporation.

  1. True
  2. False
  3. Either
  4. Neither
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation is the process of separating a liquid from its solution by evaporating it and then condensing its vapour.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

The rate of evaporation increase with increasing:

  1. surface area
  2. temperasture
  3. humidity
  4. wind speed
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation cannot be used for purification of 

  1. Urea
  2. Camphor
  3. Benzoic acid
  4. Naphthalene
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Naphthalene is a volatile solid. It is best purified by:

  1. Crystallisation
  2. Distillation
  3. Steam distillation
  4. Sublimation
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation is a process in which a solid.

  1. Changes into another allotropic form
  2. Changes into liquid form
  3. Changes into vapour form
  4. None of the above
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Anthracene is purified by?

  1. Filtration
  2. Distillation
  3. Crystallisation
  4. Sublimation
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A mixture of water and NaCl can be separated by?

  1. Sublimation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Decantation
  4. Filtration
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Name a technique used to separate : Carbon and sulphur

  1. sublimation
  2. filtration
  3. distillation
  4. magnetic
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Name a technique used to separate : Iodine and alcohol

  1. filtration
  2. distillation
  3. evaporation
  4. sublimation
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ammonium chloride is separated from a mixture of sodium chloride and ammonium chloride by the process of _____________.

  1. Crystallization
  2. Filtration
  3. Sublimation
  4. All of these
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process by which a mixture of sodium chloride and ammonium chloride can be separated, is called :

  1. sublimation
  2. chromatography
  3. evaporation
  4. distillation
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The ingredients from a mixture of iodine and sand can be separated by:

  1. Filteration
  2. Sublimation
  3. Crystallisation
  4. Precipitation
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following process is used for preparation of common salt from sea water?

  1. Distillation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Filtration
  4. Sublimation
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A mixture of sand and iodine can be separated by:

  1. distillation.
  2. fractionalization.
  3. sublimation.
  4. filtration.
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a mixture of common salt and ammonium chloride is heated, white fumes are liberated which change into a white deposit when cooked. What is this substance?

  1. Ammonium chloride
  2. Common salt (sodium chloride)
  3. A mixture of ammonium chloride and common salt
  4. Ammonium sulphate
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mixture of sand and camphor is purified by:

  1. seperating funnel
  2. distillation
  3. cooling
  4. sublimation
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following when mixed with sand sublimes on heating?

  1. Benzoic Acid
  2. Sodium chloride
  3. Potassium chloride
  4. Phenol
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Camphor is seperated from NaCl by the method :

  1. Sublimation
  2. Distillation
  3. Sedimentation
  4. Evaporation
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process used for the seperation of those solids which sublime on heating from non volatile solids is :

  1. Evaporation
  2. Distillation
  3. Filteration
  4. Sublimation
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Iodine-salt mixture can be separated through:

  1. simple distillation
  2. simple filtration
  3. sublimation
  4. fractional distillation
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Examples of sublimate does not include:

  1. ammonium salts
  2. nitrates
  3. iodine
  4. naphthalene
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation is used to purify:

  1. plasma
  2. gases
  3. solids
  4. liquids
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following substances is a mixture?

  1. Water
  2. Copper
  3. Seawater
  4. Salt
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Process in which solid is directly converted to vapors state is called:

  1. sublimation
  2. filtration
  3. drying
  4. cooling
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Condensed solid produced during sublimation is:

  1. crystals
  2. sublimate
  3. residue
  4. insoluble
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation can be used to separate a mixture of solids in which:

  1. one sublimes other does not
  2. both sublimes
  3. both does not sublime
  4. sublimation cannot be used for separation
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The combustion of candles, containing paraffin wax, to carbon dioxide and water vapour is sublimation.
  1. True
  2. False
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

On heating iodine and sand which will sublime?

  1. Sand
  2. Iodine
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of them
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sublimation process is used:

  1. to separate mixtures that contain a sublimate with a non-volatile component from a non-sublimate impurity
  2. to separate mixtures that contain a sublimate with a volatile component from a non-sublimate volatile impurity
  3. to separate mixtures that contain a sublimate with a volatile component from a non-sublimate impurity
  4. none of above
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Method of separation by sublimation is limited. 
  1. True
  2. False
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ammonium chloride is separated from a mixture of sodium chloride and ammonium chloride by the process of:

  1. evaporation
  2. sublimation
  3. fractional distillation
  4. filtration
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

By which process can we separate camphor from ammonium chloride?

  1. Filtration
  2. Sublimation
  3. Dissolution and evaporation
  4. Distillation
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

By which method can ammonium chloride be separated from sand?

  1. By hand picking
  2. By filtration
  3. By sublimation
  4. By diffusion
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The mixture of X and Y were taken in a condenser flask and were then heated. After keepint it for cooling, crystals of Y were found on the walls of the flask and X was present as such at the bottom of flask. Identify X and Y:

  1. $X= NaCl, Y= KCl$
  2. $X= Anthracene, Y=Naphthalene$
  3. $X=NaCl, Y= Naphthalene$
  4. $X=Anthracene, Y=NaCl$
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaporation of solution of $CuSO _4$ helps in:

  1. making it more concentrated
  2. crystallization of $CuSO _4$
  3. evaporation of salt $CuSO _4$
  4. both $A$ and $B$
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Put the following 6 steps for separating sand and salt into the correct order:

A.  Heat filtrate to evaporate off the solvent (water).

B.  Pour salt water filtrate into an evaporating basin on a tripod over a Bunsen burner.

C.  Filter to remove the insoluble sand.

D.  Place the sand/salt mixture into a beaker and add water.

E.  Allow basin to cool & collect salt.

F.  Stir to allow the salt to dissolve in the water.

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  2. $CDBAFE$
  3. $DFCBAE$
  4. $ABCDEF$
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a seperation technique to seperate potassium chloride and ammonium chloride?

  1. Distillation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Sublimation
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A mixture of sand and iodine can be separated by:

  1. distillation
  2. Fractionation
  3. Sublimation
  4. Filtration