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why is it essential to wash the recrystallized material with cold, not warm or hot, solvent?...

why is it essential to wash the recrystallized material with cold, not warm or hot, solvent? What might occur if the wash with cold solvent was omitted?
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Because if you wash the recrystallized material with a HOT solvent, then you might dissolve some of it, making you lose some of your product.


You just recrystallized it, it would suck to lose some of the work you just did =P


Also, if the cold wash step was omitted then you might end up with an impure compound. This would affect its boiling point and melting point amongst other things.
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