In a seperatory funnel you have 2 phases with both liquids being clear and having roughly the same...

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In a seperatory funnel you have 2 phases with both liquids being clear and having roughly the same volume. You know one of them is a dilute sodium chloride solution and anohter is hexane. If you are interested in obtaining the hexane and discarding the sodium chloride solution, what would you do and why?

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Two phases, having roughly same volume are present in the separatory 
funnel – sodium chloride solution and hexane. The sodium chloride 
solution is assumed to be aqueous solution—though it is not mentioned 
in the problem.  Though both the solutions are clear, colorless liquids, 
they are immiscible and has visible phase boundary. It is a common 
knowledge that the upper layer is the organic layer and the lower layer is 
the aqueous layer. So,

In a seperatory funnel you have 2 phases with both liquids being clear and having roughly the same volume. You know one of them is a dilute sodium chloride solution and anohter is hexane. If you are...

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