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Lesson: Chapter 3 — Mixtures

3.3. Separating the components 4 of 6

Question 4

How is a solid solute made to crystallise out of a solution?

The right answer is the one marked above.

It is concentrated. Evaporating a saturated solution pushes the solute concentration past the maximum that can stay dissolved, so the solute leaves as crystals.

Diluting does the opposite. Cooling is part of recrystallisation, which is a different operation aimed at purity rather than at getting the solid out at all.

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