Astudent has a flask containing two immiscible liquids. one of the liquids is a solution of a solid in water. describe how you would separate the mixture into three separate components.

It can be separated using a separating funnel followed by crystallization.

Explanation:

First the mixture is put into a separating funnel. This will separate the two immiscible liquids. When the two immiscible liquids are separated, we recall that one is a solution of a solid solute and we wish to recover the solid from the solution whilst recovering the solvent also.

The solid can only be recovered by crystalization if we do not want to loose the solvent. Seeds of already crystalized solute may be added to system to induce crystalization.

the answer is option a.