Salt from sea water can be separated by filtration. True or false?

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
The given statement is false.

Salt from seawater cannot be separated by filtration.

Salt particles are too small to be able to get retained on the filter paper, so they pass through the filter paper along with the water and thus cannot be separated from salt water.

For example, mud from muddy water, tea leaves from tea etc. can be separated by filtration but solutions like salt from sea water, sugar from sugar solution in water cannot be separated by filtration.

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