WAEC - Chemistry (2020 - No. 10)

- Crystallization is primarily employed as a separation technique to obtain pure crystals of a substance from an impure mixture.

- Another important application of crystallization is its use to obtain pure salt from seawater.

- Simple syrup crystallizes when enough of the sugar molecules stick to one another that they become insoluble in the water

note; distillation is used to obtain a solvent from a solution.