Practical Skills

Specification points

Particles and Separating Mixtures and Experimental techniques

Name apparatus:
• stop clock, thermometer, (weighing) balance, burette, pipette, measuring cylinder
Understand the idea of purity:
• describe paper chromatography and interpret simple chromatograms to show the
position of colourless substances on chromatograms
• Outline the use of locating agents
Understand the idea of purity:
• substance can be identified from their specific melting and boiling points
• know that impurities alter melting and boiling points
• purity is important in everyday life e.g. food and drugs
Describe methods of purification:
• using a suitable solvent e.g. water for dissolving water soluble substances
• filtration and crystallisation
• simple distillation (including distillation of alcohol from fermentation)
• fractionation (as in oil refining)
• suggesting how to purify a substance when given suitable information

Independent Study suggestions

1. Look at the specification points above – use the textbook pages (14-27) or the revision guide pages (7-
11) to make a few notes/spider diagram/revision cards
2. Have a go at the questions in the revision guide on pages 12 -14 and mark yourself – answers in the
back

3. Watch the Fuse School short 3-4 minute explanation videos

 Thin Layer Cromatography https://www.fuseschool.org/topics/62/contents/882
 TLC 2 https://www.fuseschool.org/topics/62/contents/277
 Separation techniques https://www.fuseschool.org/topics/62/contents/1017