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Identify and give an example of at least two molecular properties that could be used to separate a substance from a mixture.

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Two molecular properties that could be used to separate a substance from a mixture are - Filtration and Chromatography .

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Molecular property -Molecular properties include the chemical properties, physical properties, and structural properties of molecules, including medicines. Typically, molecular properties do not include a chemical compound's pharmacological or biological properties.

  • Filtration -: Using a filter medium that allows the fluid to move through but not the solid, filtration is a method used to distinguish solids from liquids or gases. The term 'filtration' refers whether the filter is mechanical, chemical, or physical. The filtrate is considered the fluid that flows through the filter. A surface filter, which is a solid that traps solid particles, or a depth filter, which is a bed of material that traps the solid, may be the filter medium.

Usually, filtration is an imperfect operation. On the feed side of the filter or embedded in the filter media, some fluid remains and some tiny solid particles make their way through the filter.

example - Filters containing fibers that trap particulates are used by many aquariums.

  • Chromatography -: A laboratory method for the isolation of a mixture is chromatography. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid called the mobile phase (gas, solvent, water) that carries it through a device (a column, a capillary tube, a plate, or a sheet) on which a material called the stationary phase is fixed. For the stationary step, the different constituents of the mixture have different affinities.

Chromatography can be analytical or preparatory. Preparative chromatography is intended to isolate the components of a mixture for subsequent use and is therefore a method of purification. Analytical chromatography is usually conducted with smaller quantities of material and is intended to assess the presence of analytes in a mixture or to measure their relative proportions. Both are not limited to each other.

An example of chromatography is when a chemical reaction is used to separate each of the various sized molecules on a piece of paper in a liquid compound into their own pieces.

Hence , the answer is filtration and chromatography .

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