Why can filtration be used to separate sand from water

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 12-04-01] [Hit: ]

O..O Thank yous for your helps!(=-sand is large- large particles.........

I was fiddling and messing with some filter paper when this question hit me O..O why is filtration a suitable mathod? O..O Thank yous for your helps!(=

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sand is large- large particles...they cannot pass through the fliter paper pores...filtration is a seperation method used to seperate large/insoluble solids from liquids....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtration
check this out! =)

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Because sand particles are too large to go through the pores of the filter paper? Really?

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