Paragraph 8 TITRATION OF THE OXALATE PRECIPITATE

Wash the beaker and crucible until the excess ammonium oxalate has been completely removed (this can be checked by the absence of chloride in the washing water). Place the crucible in the 400 ml beaker and dissolve the precipitate with 50 ml of hot sulfuric acid (4.2). Add water to the beaker in order to obtain a volume of approximately 100 ml. Bring to a temperature of 70° to 80°C and titrate drop by drop with the permanganate solution (4.9) until the pink colour lasts for a minute. Let this volume be n.