Filtering

Today we will be testing out to see if two liquids can separate by filtering. Filtering is separating things based on their size. Filtering only works until a certain point, if the particles are the same size they will not separate that is insoluble. Our goal is to make a solution then separate the solution from a precipitate. I think they will separate if they are different sizes but I do not think they will separate if the particles are the same size. The copper liquid is blue and there is a colourless liquid we will be mixing together. The method we will be doing is filtering the two different liquids from a funnel separated by a filter paper into the conical flask. When we mixed the sodium carbonate and copper sulfate together it became a brighter blue. We were able to separate it because the blue was the solid. They were different sizes so the experiment was successful. When we put the filter paper into the funnel and poured our solution in the blue was separated from the clear liquid. The clear liquid was pouring out from the filter while the blue was staying inside the filter. I think the blue separated from the clear liquid because they were different sizes and because of the filter paper separates different sized particles. Our colourless liquid became sodium sulfate and the blue precipitate became the opposite liquid. The Blue became a thick consistency.