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Chemistry
Purifying Crystals by Solubility
Description
Purifying crystals by solubility is a key organic chemistry technique. Recrystallization uses differences in solubility to separate a desired solid product from starting materials, solvent, and impurities. It is one of the three standard purification methods, along with distillation and extraction.
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Transcript
Most products contain impurities. One way to purify these products is by recrystallization. Recrystallization begins with dissolving the impure product in just enough hot solvent to form a saturated solution, where as much solute is dissolved in the solvent as possible. Any additional solute will not seem to dissolve.
A hot solvent is use...
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