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Besides the obvious of experimental loss and human error. There could be loss due to you starting product not being 100% pure, usually when trying to recover a product you are using an impure sample to start with. The next reason would be that the reaction did not go to completion. An example of this would be if you were crystallizing a product, and all some of the product did not crystallize or precipitate out. Hope this helps:)

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Percent recovery might be too low due to incomplete extraction or inefficient purification techniques leading to loss of the desired compound. Other reasons could include degradation of the compound during the extraction process or errors in measurements or calculations.

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