Department of Chemistry
School of Plysical Sciences
College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences
CHE 399 Researci. Methods
QUIZ 1
1. Mention the appropriate method you would use to extract/separate/purify each of the following mixtures [4]
a. Neem oil and water
b. Food dye
c. Alkaloid from Jatropha plant
d. Ethanol from palm wine
2. A sample was placed on a chromatography column. Dichloromethane/ethyl acetate (7:3) was used as the eluting solvent system. No separation of the components in the sample was observed.
a) What must have been happening during this experiment? [2]
b) What would you do to overcome this problem? \( \qquad \)
[2]
3. In each of the following situations, what type of filtration would you use?[4]
a) Remove powdered decolorizing charcoal from 20 mL solution
b) Collect crystals obtained from crystallizing a substance from a solution.
4. State two (2) differences between evaporation and crystallization
[2]
5. Consider the following solvent pairs. If mixed, which pairs would form two layers? If they form two layers, which solvent would be on top?
[6]
a) hexanes and water
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b) water and methylene chloride
c) hexanes and methylene chloride
d) methanol and hexanes
e) ethanol and water
f) acetone and toluene
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