. Your lab technician was to determine the ash content of buttermilk by conventional dry ashing. The technician weighed 5 g of liquid buttermilk into one weighed platinum crucible, immediately put the crucible into the muffle furnace using a pair of all stainless steel tongs, and ashed the sample for 48 h at 800 °C. The crucible was removed from the muffle furnace and set on a rack in the open until it was cool enough to reweigh. (4 marks)

a. What errors were made in the preceding method (there were several)?

b. What were the likely results of these errors?

Ashing process is done to evaluate the ash content present in petroleum or other proucts, so that they can be used for certain applications

The two major types of ashing process that includes dry ashing and wet ashing and can be performed using microwave systems or conventional means.

a. errors made in the preceding method while determining the ash content of buttermilk by conventional dry ashing are as following:

b. The result that occur due to above errors such as the temperature, time,  tongs and leaving ash in open will manipulate the final ash content and its application can be harmful for humans and for other purpose if it will be used.

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