Oops! It's important that all the acetanilide dissolves.
** RECORD PRODUCT LOSS: Subtract 350 mg from your 'starting mass'.
Discuss:
Why will NOT adding water at this step decrease the recovery?
At what step will the acetanilide be lost?
Remote lab purposes only: This crude mass will be your ‘starting mass’, the maximum amount, from which you'll subtract 'product loss.'
If you were doing this experiment in the lab, you wouldn't know how much product is lost until the very end.
The next step is the addition of activated charcoal. Do you...