Describe how you would separate a mixture of water, .
Water may be simply filtered off. The iron filings may be dissolved in acid, and this solution filtered from the sand. Fe(s) + 2HCl(aq) rarr FeCl_2(aq) + H_2(g)uarr Sand, SiO_2 to a first approximation, is very inert, and only specialty acids (for instance HF) would touch