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Chemistry Forums for Students => Inorganic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: fiab777 on September 11, 2018, 11:05:26 AM

Title: Sodium Chloride Separation from Seawater
Post by: fiab777 on September 11, 2018, 11:05:26 AM

What are the methods currently used to separate pure NaCl from seawater? I'm asking the question here because it's a pre-lab problem I'm kind of having for an inorganic chem class.

Title: Re: Sodium Chloride Separation from Seawater
Post by: Borek on September 11, 2018, 01:34:45 PM

What have you been able to google?

Title: Re: Sodium Chloride Separation from Seawater
Post by: wildfyr on September 11, 2018, 02:20:23 PM

One method should be very very obvious.

Title: Re: Sodium Chloride Separation from Seawater
Post by: fiab777 on September 12, 2018, 11:28:41 AM

Quote from: Borek on September 11, 2018, 01:34:45 PM

What have you been able to google?

Well I've been seeing evaporation but I was wondering aren't there so many ions dissolved in seawater, and won't evaporation just give us sodium chloride along with the other salts?

Title: Re: Sodium Chloride Separation from Seawater
Post by: billnotgatez on September 12, 2018, 02:02:13 PM

@fiab777
And what were your results from GOOGLE of

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pure NaCl from seawater