Micro-crystalline precipitate:

A slow rate of precipitation, particularly along with micro-crystalline precipitate, prolongs the time of titration. Seeding or the further of ethanol (concentration up to 30-40 %) might have favourable effect.

The composition of the precipitate will not be constant if the precipitate has pronounced adsorptive properties, and appreciable errors might result. Occlusion might take place along with micro crystalline precipitates.

In spite of the obvious limitations of the method, still a huge number of precipitation titrations have been carried out; therefore silver nitrate, lead nitrate, barium acetate or barium chloride, uranyl acetate, lithium sulphate and lithium oxalate have been utilized in precipitation reactions.