Question

1. Making coffee or tea requires hot water to remove soluble components from the grounds or leaves. This is a separation process called extraction, removing a soluble component from solid material. What other separation technique is used to prepare the coffee or tea to drink

Answer 1

The other technique which used to separate the coffee or tea is Filtration.

Filtration is a physical, biological or chemical operation that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture with a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass.

Solid particles that cannot pass through the filter medium are described as oversize and the fluid that passes through is called the filtrate.