Question

Muddy water can be separated by winnowing

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

Different separation techniques are present depending on the property of the substances to be separated

Winnowing is a method of separation of solid-solid mixture particularly

• The mixture of substances when dropped from a height by a person by continuously shaking the carrier, the lighter particles are taken away by the wind and fall away from the person (worker) and the heavier particles will fall near to the person can be collected
• Separation of husk from grains is done using this method, since husk which is lighter taken away by the wind (air) and grains which is heavier fall near to the person

Muddy water can be separated by filtration,

• The muddy particles settle down at the bottom when left undisturbed
• we can decant the solution to get the upper water layer and, the remaining muddy part can be filtered and dried by pressing with filter paper.

Thus, the given statement is false,i.e. muddy water can not be separated using the winnowing technique.