Question

Which of the following mixture can be separated by filtration?

Answer 1

• Tea leaves in tea and seeds from fruit juice are a solid-liquid mixture, which can be separated by a strainer. We can filter out the tea leaves and seeds respectively.
• Oil in water is a liquid-liquid mixture, which means that it cannot be separated using filtration.
• Pebbles and sand are both solids, and both will get stuck in the filter medium if passed through it. Hence they cannot be separated by filtration.