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Mass Separation: Crash Course Engineering #17

By CrashCourseFrom YoutubeJanuary 31, 2026

Today we’re going over three different processes engineers use to achieve that separation: distillation, which separates substances based on their different boiling points; liquid-liquid extraction, which uses differences in solubility to transfer a contaminant into a solvent; and reverse osmosis, which filters molecules from a solvent by pressurizing it through a semipermeable barrier.

#Separation- Process goal
#Components- Mixture parts
#Distillation- Thermal method
#Absorption- Gas uptake
#Adsorption- Surface capture
#Extraction- Solvent method
#Membrane- Selective barrier