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Homework Statement
what is the purpose of adding ethanol in step 5 in the following description?
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk...s/N-ch5-08.pdf
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The Attempt at a Solution
Does adding ethanol make the liquid phase (which is now a homogenous mixture) less polar because ethanol is slighly hydrophobic hence the salt is less soluble so precipitates out?
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