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A form four student accidentally mixed sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate. Describe how he would obtain a dry sample of sodium carbonate from the mixture.

A form four student accidentally mixed sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate. Describe how he would obtain a dry sample of sodium carbonate from the mixture.

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Edith
-Add water to the mixture.
-Stir the mixture for all sodium carbonate to dissolve.
-Filter the mixture to obtain calcium carbonate as residue and sodium carbonate as filtrate.
-Heat the filtrate to evaporate excess water and leave it to cool slowly for sodium carbonate to crystallize.
-Finally filter the product and obtain pure crystals of sodium carbonate.
eddynightsy answered the question on May 2, 2018 at 07:50

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