If you have an acid, a base and a neutral substance in water, how would you sepa

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If you have an acid, a base and a neutral substance in water, how would you separate the three using extraction with an organic, non-polar extraction solvent? (You also have available a strong acid and a strong base. Remember, the pH of the aqueous solution determined the charge of solute.) If you have an acid, a base and a neutral substance in water, how would you separate the three using extraction with an organic, non-polar extraction solvent? (You also have available a strong acid and a strong base. Remember, the pH of the aqueous solution determined the charge of solute.) If you have an acid, a base and a neutral substance in water, how would you separate the three using extraction with an organic, non-polar extraction solvent? (You also have available a strong acid and a strong base. Remember, the pH of the aqueous solution determined the charge of solute.)

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If we have an acid, a base and a neutral substance in water, first extraction with non-polar organic solvent which helps to separate neutral substance from water. Now, the water consist of acid (-COOH) and base (-NH2) substances. To this, lower, or acidic, pH level by using con. HCl, then base get converted into salt leaving behind the acid as such. Now extract it with non-polar organic solvent and separate the acid substance. Now the water contains only base in salt form, this you can basify in order to precipitate base substance and extract with the non-polar organic solvent and separate the base substance.

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