[Harith]

So a conical flask/burette has been used for titration.
what are the steps to be performed before either of the two is reused?
Plz reply fast!

[Arkcon]

Its not worthwhile for you to hope for a quick reply, this forum is very active, but people will need time to generate a useful response for you.  If your homework is due soon, you should have started sooner.  If the burette is dripping right now, shut off your laptop/smartphone, and follow the lab rules.

OK.  Briefly.  You will have to rinse them out thoroughly, before you use them for a totally different experiment.  Although if you're doing another of the same titration, you could re-fill the burette with the same solution.  Make sure you've written down all the values you need first.

[Harith]

Its not worthwhile for you to hope for a quick reply, this forum is very active, but people will need time to generate a useful response for you.  If your homework is due soon, you should have started sooner.  If the burette is dripping right now, shut off your laptop/smartphone, and follow the lab rules.

OK.  Briefly.  You will have to rinse them out thoroughly, before you use them for a totally different experiment.  Although if you're doing another of the same titration, you could re-fill the burette with the same solution.  Make sure you've written down all the values you need first.

No I dont exactly do practicals, I take an ATP test, so just need a theoretical answer

[Arkcon]

You will have to review the guide materials, then.  They are looking for a specific answer, and won't accept any other.  In a basic analytical chemistry book that I was reading at work one time, written in the 1930's, it was suggested that all glassware be soaped, rinsed clear, and given 5 rinses with distilled water.  That seemed excessive to people around me.  We'd "heard" that three distilled water rinses were adequate.  For any validated system, a cleaning validation should be performed and ongoing -- in other words its clean enough when you can prove its clean enough, no more, no less.

See?  I've given you 3 separate answers, all technically correct (the best kind of correct, so I've heard.)  You will have to search, in study materials, for the answer this standardized test wants.

[Harith]

You will have to review the guide materials, then.  They are looking for a specific answer, and won't accept any other.  In a basic analytical chemistry book that I was reading at work one time, written in the 1930's, it was suggested that all glassware be soaped, rinsed clear, and given 5 rinses with distilled water.  That seemed excessive to people around me.  We'd "heard" that three distilled water rinses were adequate.  For any validated system, a cleaning validation should be performed and ongoing -- in other words its clean enough when you can prove its clean enough, no more, no less.

See?  I've given you 3 separate answers, all technically correct (the best kind of correct, so I've heard.)  You will have to search, in study materials, for the answer this standardized test wants.

so would this be logical: wash the flask with tap water and then with distilled water if the alkali was in the flask and acid in the burette?