Results showed that the two samples have a difference of 6% in the moisture content.

Oven drying
method is widely used in determination of moisture. Water is removed due to heating at 105 C. Loss of
weight due to vaporization of water is taken as weight of moisture. The accuracy of results of moisture
determination is affected by, drying temperature, relative humidity, particle size of sample, handling
method of sample, amount of sample, type of evaporation dish, variation in temperature inside the
oven. To minimize these errors various precautions should be taken. i.e. sample should be dried in
stainless steel containers, which is not decompose during heating. Three consecutive samples
werecarried out to eliminate the errors of the handlers, usually 5 g of ground sample was taken to
facilitate the drying, and this encourages the evaporation because particle size is small.

Identify the various principles used to determine moisture

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