Salt prep

Salt

soluble Insoluble

Titration Mixing precipitation

1. Fill up burette with acid. 1. Add excess metal 1. Mix soluble salt 1 (metal
2. Pipette out alkali in a oxide ( or carbonate or nitrate) with soluble salt
conical flask, add metal) to a given 2 ( group I salt) in a
suitable indicator e.g quantity of acid. beaker/ flask.
methyl orange. 2. Stir (heat in case of 2. Filter ppt / solid mass.
3. Run acid from burette metal oxide) and 3. Wash the ppt/ solid with
until end point that is
3. Remove excess distilled water to remove
when indicator shows a
amount by filtration. soluble impurities.
colour change.
4. Heat the solution 4. Dry the crystals in oven.
4. Repeat above steps
without indicator (note gently and crystallise .
down the volume used 5. Dry the crystals
in case of calculations). formed with two folds
5. Evaporate solution by of filter paper.
gentle heating /
crystallise solution.
6. Dry the crystals in two
folds of filter paper.