State true or false:
When you try to separate salt from water by evaporation, the water evaporated is salty.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
When we try to separate salt from water by evaporation, the evaporated water is not salty because salt is left behind as residue and only the constituent water from the mixture gets evaporated.

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