Water Filtration Particle Size

What is filtration?

• A method used to separate a solid from a liquid that dissolves in the liquid

• A separating technique used to separate a mixture of a solid and liquid where the solid does not dissolve in the liquid

Most simple water purification devices used in the home use filtration as their main method of purifying the water

• True

• False

I am left behind in the filter paper ]. What Am I?

• Filtrate

• Solution

• Residue

The part of the mixture that passes through the filter paper is called the

• residue

• filtrate

• suspension

During the purification process, filtration separates the

• Solid purities

• Solid impurities

Th components of filtration are separated based on

• boiling point

• solubility

• particle size