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Chemistry Forums for Students => Undergraduate General Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Hootenannny on January 05, 2006, 01:50:19 PM
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I have a solution of sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid and sugars. Is there anyway I could extract the sugars? nI thought about just evaportating the solution to leave behind the solid crystalised sugars but then I realised that solid sodium chloride would also be left.
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Hmmm..hard to answer..mayby you could precipiate the chloride wit Ag+ and the Na+ ions with hexahydroxoantimonate, but I don't think that you can precipitate 100% of the NaCl so
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Good idea, I hadn't thought of that, but unfortunatly I theoretically need pure sugar at the end. Precipitation sounds like a good idea though, I'll look into it. Thank's.
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Eh, this is tricky. Precipitation of the salt ions would only leave new ions in solution with the sugar. For example, if you tried to precipitate out the Cl- ions from solution with AgNO3, you would obtain the AgCl precipitate but inevitably leave NO3 ions in solution :-X What you could try to do is first increase the concentration of the solutes by boiling off some of the solvent (water, I presume), then add an organic solvent such as acetone to the solution. The sugar molecules should be more soluble then the salt ions in the water-acetone solution and you could then filter out the NaCl manually. However, this process would need to repeated many times to obtain the pure sugar you want.
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I have a solution of sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid and sugars. Is there anyway I could extract the sugars? nI thought about just evaportating the solution to leave behind the solid crystalised sugars but then I realised that solid sodium chloride would also be left.
You'll probably be able to separate the sugar and the salt simply based on their different solubilities at different temperatures; if required to successive separations. There are methods that come to mind, but I'm not able to regurgitate the exact details at the moment.
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Thank's for that I look into it. Any details you could give would be appreiciated.