Everything around you is made up of materials. We use materials to make objects such as tables and chairs, shoes and clothes, cars and aircraft. This book looks at how materials can be mixed and separated. When two materials are mixed together they can be separated by sieving, filtering, skimming or by evaporation. But when some materials are mixed together they cannot be separated because the materials have changed forever.

 

This book features in the following series: Inquiry Box, Working With Materials .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Hachette Children's Group .

Chris Oxlade is an experienced writer of children's non-fiction and specialises in scientific subjects.

This book has the following chapters: What is a mixture? Mixtures around us Mixing solutions Separating materials Sieving materials Settling and skimming Filtering liquids Filtering gases Evaporation Making new materials Activities Glossary Further information Index