You carry out a recrystallization of a sample that is contaminated with sand, but forget to do the hot filtration. Describe what would be observed during the melting point determination of the recrystallized compound that is still contaminated with sand.

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abb0t · Answer

a possible increase in melting point. With impurities still in your sample, melting point generally tends to be higher than actual melting point, due to the bonds of impurities being broken and such.