The suggestion is to prevent a puddle of the liquid present in the sample from forming or from it leaking on to the surface on which it is placed. For example, if precipitates of a solid are removed from water and then placed on filter paper to dry, the water will soak into the filter paper and then leak on to the counter on which it is placed. If this precipitate were placed in a watch glass or weighing paper, the water would only evaporate and would not contaminate the sample.
Answer:
0.45 moles
Explanation:
The computation of the number of moles left in the cylinder is shown below:
As we know that

we can say that

where,
n1 = 1.80 moles of gas
V2 = 12.0 L
And, the V1 = 48.0 L
Now placing these values to the above formula
So, the moles of gas in n2 left is

= 0.45 moles
We simply applied the above formulas so that the n2 moles of gas could arrive