You just used the last of your breakfast cereal to make yourself a fresh bowl. After eating a couple of spoonfuls, you notice that the printing on the box claims that your cereal has the most metallic iron of any breakfast cereal on the planet. Now, your only sample of the breakfast cereal contains bran flakes, raisins, milk, and sugar. You decide to find out if the claim regarding the iron is true. How would you separate the mixture to collect the iron?

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anonymous · Answer

emm, i heard this experiment before using cornflakes, but I am not sure that it will work out or not.

take the cereal and put it in a plastic bag. crush it.the powdered cerealare put into a bowl.
then take a bar magnet and start to stir the powder using it. u will see some small grainy black powder collected. that is the Iron powder Fe.

i haven't tried it yet, why don't u give it a try. ;)

anonymous · Answer

yeah!! ive tried that out! it works! :)

anonymous · Answer

glad to hear that! :DD