HOW WOULD YOU PROPOSE SEPARATING A MIXTURE OF NEUTRAL METAL ATOMS, METAL CATIONS, AND SIMPLE ANIONS?
Since the mixture mentioned by you consists of metal atoms, and ions, this means that mixture must be in aqueous form otherwise ions will not exist at normal temperatures.
So firstly you would just precipitate out the solid metal atoms that are present, using simlpe technique such as filtration.
Next you are left with cations and anions.
You can perform an electrolysis experiment to separate out the cations and anions, in which the cations selectively move towars cathode and anions towards anode.
For more details, kindly give the exact mixture details.
Hope this helps !
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