Question 8

Why is it essential to wash the precipitate with water before estimating it quantitatively?

Answer

The precipitate (product) formed out from any chemical reaction always contains some traces of unwanted materials (unreacted reactants or catalyst and certain impurities). These unwanted materials adsorbed onto the surface of the required product and settle down at the bottom of the container. For quantitative estimation of the product, these unwanted materials has to be removed. For removal of unwanted materials, different methods are used, one of them is washing with water. Because most of the impurities are water soluble, so they can be easily removed from the product. Water easily makes hydrogen bond with most of the elements (polar). After washing with water, the unwanted materials gets dissolved in water and removed out from the final product.

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