Reversible Irreversible Changes
Reversible Irreversible Changes
Reversible Irreversible Changes
irreversible changes
You are to mix the following materials with water and record your observations. The materials are:
Sand Flour
Salt Powder paint
Plaster of Paris Baking powder
Sand
Flour
Salt
Powder paint
Plaster of Paris
Baking powder
Describe how you would separate the sand from the water. Then describe how you would separate the
salt from the water
Rock salt is a mixture of small rocks and salt, it is often used on roads when it is icy to provide grip and
to melt the ice.
Using your knowledge of dissolving, filtering and evaporating separate a sample of rock salt so you are
left with a pile of rock and a pile of salt.
You will find the following apparatus useful: Funnel, filter paper, beakers, Bunsen burner or water
heater.
Cement
Do you think that the ash is the only material produced by burning the paper?
Do you think that when an object is burned the process can be reversed?
Produce a poster warning people of the dangers of the fumes given off by burning materials in the
home.
Filtering
Mixing
Easily reversed
Evaporating
Heating
Heating Cooling
Burning
Cooling
Reversible &
Irreversible
Changes
Irreversible
Cannot be removed