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Catherine has some seawater. She wants to separate pure water from the seawater.

She sets up the apparatus shown in the diagram below.Name the change of state that occurs at the surface of the seawater.
It is a distillation diagram

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water can be separated from salt solution by simple distillation. This method works because water has a much lower boiling point than salt. When the solution is heated, the water evaporates. It is then cooled and condensed into a separate container.

This can be distillation/evaporation.
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Answer:

the change is evaporation

Step-by-step explanation:

the water heats up at the surface of the water and evaporates

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