Answer to Question #91714 in Physical Chemistry for Am

Question

2. You spill some sugar in a sandbox. You scoop it up as best you can, but now you have a mixture of sand and sugar. How could you separate the two?

Answer 1

Pour the mixture into hot water.

Stir water. The sugar will dissolve readily but sand will not. Pour through a fine mesh such as a sieve into another container. The sand will be at the sieve and the sugar solution will be as a liquid in the bottom container. Evaporate the water from sugar solution until sugar is left behind only.