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What would happen if u washed the benzoic acid in the Büchner funnel with hot solvent ?


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Benzoic acid is able to dissolve in hot solvents. That means that it would not be filtered out by the buchner funnel since the buchner funnel has holes in it that make it so that the solvent can get through but solids can't (the benzoic acid would be dissolved in the solvent and therefore would leave the funnel with the solvent through the holes).  

Note that it is important that the solvent is hot.  Benzoic acid will start to precipitate out (re crystallize) as soon as the temperature drops which will make it so that some of the benzoic acid would get caught in the buchner funnel.

I hope this helps.  Let me know in the comments if anything was unclear.
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