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Rock salt is a mixture of salt sodium chlorine and sand describe how you separate rocksalt to obtain salt crystals and pure dry sand. This question is worth 6 marks so please fill enough points

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pour the rock salt mixture through a filter made from paper and allow the liquid to filtrate

Step-by-step explanation:

Separating Sand and Salt

Probably the easiest method to separate the two substances is to dissolve salt in water, pour the liquid away from the sand, and then evaporate the water to recover the salt.

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