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How will you separate a mixture of common salt, sulphur powder and sand?

Add water to the mixture of sand, salt and sulphur and stir. Salt will dissolve in water. Filter this solution and evaporate the filtrate to get salt. Add carbon disulphide to the residue containing a mixture of sulphur and sand. Sulphur will dissolve in carbon disulphide. Filter this solution.


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