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A solid mixture of naphthalene, sodium chloride and sand is to be separated into its three components. Which procedure achieves this?

  1. AAdd water and filter; evaporate the filtrate to get NaCl; sublime the residue on the filter paper so that naphthalene sublimes leaving sand
  2. BAdd water and filter; sublime the filtrate to obtain NaCl
  3. CSublime the mixture; then sublime the residue again to separate NaCl from sand
  4. DAdd water and shake in a separating funnel to obtain naphthalene as a lower layer

Answer: A

NaCl dissolves in water while naphthalene and sand do not, so filtration separates NaCl solution (recovered by evaporation) from the solid pair. Naphthalene sublimes on gentle heating and sand is left. NaCl does not sublime and naphthalene is solid and insoluble in water, so the other procedures fail.
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