Using clever animation and real-world examples, this video gives viewers a solid grounding in the principles of mixtures, how they can form, and how they can be separated. Starting with everyday tools and materials -- including a campfire, sugar, water, and magnets -- the program illustrates simple and complex experiments that demonstrate a wide range of mixture separation techniques. Viewers will discover the difference between solvents, solutes, and solutions; the characteristics of suspensions and colloids; and both low- and high-tech methods for separating mixtures, from evaporation and magnetism to paper chromatography and the use of a centrifuge.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Apr. 07, 2006. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Types of Mixtures (5:09) -- Examples of Mixtures (5:55) -- Separating Mixtures 1 (4:03) -- Separating Mixtures 2 (4:56).