You are part of a police unit that has found a powder in a suspect's home. You think it might be a new drug called XYZ. XYZ is an ionic compound that dissolves in water. However, what you think might be a drug may just be salt. Unfortunately there seems to be iron fillings and sand mixed in with the white powder. Your job is to isolate the white powder before sending it to the police lab to be tested to determine if it is salt or XYZ. Give step by step directions on exactly how you will separate your mixture of white powder, iron fillings, and sand.

water   molecules stay close to each other through cohesion, the collective action of hydrogen bonds between water molecules. cohesion plants draw water upwards from the root through the stem's transport tubes (xylem) to the leaf. this transport occurs even in large trees and against gravity. transpiration, evaporation of water from plant leaves, creates a tension on water molecules being pulled up from the stem and roots.

water also has high (the attraction of one substance to another) properties because of its polar nature. adhesion of water molecules to plant cell walls counteract gravity while water is transported from roots to leaves.

water exhibits a very high surface tension when compared to other liquids. surface tension is a property of a liquid that holds the surface together and allows it to resist an external force. by capillary action, the water forms concave menisci inside the pores. the high surface tension of water pulls the concavity outwards, generating enough force to lift water from the roots to the leaves of plants.

thus, cohesion, along with adhesion and surface tension creates a capillary action that keeps water molecules interacting and moving through the plants out to the leaf cells.

therefore, option d) is the correct answer.

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