Separative chemistry

Separative Chemistry is an important branch of chemistry which is related more closely to physics than chemistry. It includes many processes by which groups of materials are seprated from other materials or mixtures, and often does not involve any chemical reaction. Most of these processes are most easily categorized by the phases of matter they separate, and what physical / quantitative property the separation involves:

Separative physical processes

	Solids	Liquids	Gases
Solids	Floatation (density) Sieving (particle size) Magnetic separation (ferro/dia/para/...) Static Electrical Separation (conductivity)	N/A	N/A
Liquids	Drying(bp) Decantation (density) Filtration (particle size)	Decantation (density, solubility) Distillation (bp) Crystallization (fp)	N/A
Gases	Vacuum	Vacuum dissolution (solubility) Standing (density)	Condensation (bp) Standing (density)