Practical technique within organic synthesis
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Suits organic preparations where a crude solid must be isolated before recrystallisation, isolating a solid product from a liquid mixture rather than separating two liquids.
The hot solution is filtered, cooled slowly to form crystals, and the crystals are collected by suction filtration, washed with cold solvent and dried.
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