Separating funnel

1. Separating Funnel by SAI MURALI 9

2. WHAT IS SEPARATING FUNNEL A separating funnel is a piece of laboratory glassware which is a separation technique that is used for separating two liquids that do not dissolve in each other.

3. HOW DOES SEPRATING FUNNEL WORKS When we pore the mixture in seprating funnel Then liquid with the lower density floats on top and When the tap is opened, the liquid with the higher density starts to flow through the separating funnel into the container. T ap is then closed just before the liquid with the lower density starts to flow through. The liquid with the lower density remaining in the separating funnel can then be drained into a different container to separate the two immiscible liquids

4. SEPRATING TWO IMMISCIBLE SUBSTANCE(WATER AND OIL) Pour the mixture of water and oil in separating funnel Let it stand undisturbed for sometime so that separating layers of oil and water is formed

5. Open the stopcock of the separating funnel and pour out the lower layer of water carefully close the stopcock of separating funnel as the oil reaches the stop cock.

6. Applications of separating funnel To separate mixture of oil and water In the extraction of iron from its ore