5.8 Why is it essential to wash the precipitate with water before estimating it quantitatively?
The precipitate is formed from reactions so it contains some chemical or unwanted substances traces (like impurities, catalyst and reactant). For quantitative estimation of the product, we need to remove these additional substances which get adsorbed onto the surface of the required product and it gives us the wrong information about the product of the reaction. So to avoid this problem we wash the precipitate with the water (most of the impurities are water soluble).