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The percentage recovery of the benzoic acid was only with 75.38 % or approximately
with 75 percent. This percentage was make sense because the rest of the percent had lost
during the experiment. There are 25 percent of the pure benzoic acid was lost might be
(1chemistry.blogspot.my, 2011)
Once the solid form of benzoic acid is fully dissolved, the remaining impurities can be
removed by filtering the hot solution through a fluted filter paper and then placed inside
the glass filter funnel. However, the solution would be cool rapidly when the Erlenmeyer
flask was removed from the hot plate. (Department Chemical Science, Faculty Science,
University Tunku Abdul Rahman, UDEC 1224 Chemistry Laboratory II (2016),
The fast cooling process will lead the crystal benzoic acid formed during the filtration
process. So, the fast cooling process could be minimized by used a stemless funnel placed
on top of the Erlenmeyer flask and heat the flask with containing a few milliliters of
distilled water inside the Erlenmeyer flask so that the cooling process would be take place
The boiling chips must be added before boiling of solution instead of after boiling. This is
because adding boiling chips to a solution near its boiling point will induce flash boiling
as well. The boiling chips are not soluble in the solvent and hence they can be filtered out
by using filter paper, but they are not reusable. (1chemistry.blogspot.my, 2011)
The cold water was used for washed the product. This is because the solubility of the
benzoic acid. The benzoic acid was soluble in non-chilled distilled water but less soluble
in cold distilled water. If the non-chilled distilled water used for washed the benzoic acid
then the benzoic acid would be redissolved into the water readily. After that, the benzoic
acid might be drained off into the flask during the suction filtration process. When this
was happen then the benzoic acid would be lost more. So, in order to prevent the benzoic
acid reddisolved, cold distilled water was preferred for washed the benzoic acid instead
benzoic acid.
If the recover benzoic acid are highly pure, then when may observed the melt of capillary
tube. However, the capillary tube was not melt so meaning that there are still some
impurities are not eliminate successfully from the pure benzoic acid. The impurities or
contaminants most probably presence inside the benzoic acid was water since the
charcoal was never involved in this experiment.
Conclusion
The percentage recovery of benzoic acid and the melting points of pure benzoic acid in
this recrystallization process was 75 percent and 120 degree Celsius respectively.
References
Department Chemical Science, Faculty Science, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, UDEC 1224
Chemistry Laboratory II (2016), Experiment 14: Recrystallization (pg45-48) Retrieved 19
August
2016,
from
http://wble-pk.utar.edu.my/file.php/12032/UDEC_1224_-
_Chemistry_Laboratory_II_Manual.pdf
Anon,
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Anon, why is a fluted filter paper used in the filtration process?what is it's advantage? Yahoo!
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Anon,
How
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