In the filtration practical, what is the first step?

The first step in the filtration process involves preparing your equipment and ensuring everything is set up correctly for the procedure to be effective. Filling a beaker with the mixture is essential because it allows you to have the solvent or suspension ready to be filtered. Without this preliminary step, you would not have any solution to pour into the funnel for the filtration process.

After this initial step, you would typically place the filter paper in the funnel to prepare for filtering, position the receiving beaker beneath the funnel to collect the filtrate, and then pour the mixture into the funnel. However, starting by filling a beaker with the mixture establishes the basis for the subsequent steps and is therefore the crucial first action in the filtration process.