Benzohydroxamic acid as a reductometric titrant: Determination of thorium

Milligram quantities of thorium can be accurately determined by precipitating it as oxalate, dissolving the precipitate in 11 sulphuric acid and oxidizing the liberated oxalic acid with a known excess of standard permanganate solution above 60 °C in sulphuric acid medium, and finally estimating the excess permanganate by titrating with a standard solution of benzohydroxamic acid either visually or potentiometrically. 10 mg quantities of thorium has been estimated with an error not exceeding 0.12%. The coefficient of variation for 10 estimations is found to be 0.06% and 0.12% for potentiometric and visual methods, resp.     

Volumetric estimation of potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate in mixtures with oxalic acid

1. A simple method has now been developed for the volumetric estimation of potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate in mixtures The method consists in taking an aliquot volume of the mixture in an Erlenmeyer flask, adding sufficient quantities of sulphuric acid and manganous sulphate (catalyst) and titrating with a standard solution of sodium oxalate or oxalic acid run in from the burette, until the colour changes from orange-red to yellow. The oxalic acid run ingives a measure of the permanganate present in the mixture Then the mixture in the flask is titrated with a standard solution of Mohr's salt using diphenylbenzidine as indicator. The volume of Fe⁺² solution run in the second stage gives a measure of the dichromate present in the original mixture. 2. The reverse titration does not give accurate results, because it is affected by the induced reaction between oxalic acid and dichromate which is induced by the reaction between oxalic acid and permanganate during the first stage of the reaction. This induced reaction has been studied in some detail.     

Analysis of mixtures of citric and oxalic acids based on their oxidation with potassium permanganate and manganese(III) sulfate

A determination of mixtures of citric and oxalic acids has been developed based on quantitative oxidation of the two substances with excess potassium permanganate to carbon dioxide and water and on quantitative oxidation of oxalic acid to carbon dioxide and water and of citric acid to carbon dioxide and formic acid with excess manganese(III) sulfate. The content of the two substances in mixtures can be calculated from the different consumption in these two oxidimetric determinations; a single standard solution of potassium permanganate can also be used for the preparation of manganese(III) sulfate.     

氢氧化钡沉淀–碘量法对高锰酸钾和锰酸钾共存时的分别测定

采用氢氧化钡沉淀–碘量法对高锰酸钾和锰酸钾共存时的含量分别进行测定。向电解液中加入过量的饱和氢氧化钡溶液,利用锰酸钡和高锰酸钡溶度积的不同进行分离,再用碘量法分别对高锰酸钾和锰酸钾进行测定。结果表明,高锰酸钾和锰酸钾的检出限分别为0.061,0.077 g/L,测定结果的相对标准偏差分别为0.57%和0.72%(n=4),高锰酸钾的加标回收率为94.12%~95.85%。t检验结果表明,氢氧化钡沉淀–碘量法与传统方法对高锰酸钾和锰酸钾的测定结果无显著性差异。该法避免了亚铅酸钠和铬盐的毒性及滴定终点颜色不易判断等缺点,适合于高锰酸钾工业生产中主要成分的快速检测。     

Determination of peroxydiphosphate in acid medium with oxalate (i) with silver(I) as catalyst and (ii) in the presence of excess of manganese(II)

Peroxydiphosphate can be determined with oxalate in acid medium in the presence of silver(I). Excess of oxalic acid along with the sample and silver (I) is heated to boiling and the excess of oxalic acid is titrated against standard permanganate. Another method involves boiling for 2 min a mixture consisting of the sample and excess of manganese(II), followed by titration of the resulting Mn(III) or MnO(2) with standard oxalic acid solution.     

Purification of 233U from Thorium and Iron in the Reprocessing of Irradiated Thorium Oxide Rods

A two step precipitation using ammonium carbonate and oxalic acid as the precipitants for thorium and iron is developed for the purification of ²³³U. Ammonium carbonate is added to the feed to increase the pH of the solution. The effect of pH on the solubility of U, Th and Fe in an excess of ammonium carbonate is studied. This indicates that the solubility of Th and Fe is minimum at pH 7 and the recovery of uranium is maximum. The effect of the concentration of thorium and iron on the recovery of uranium at pH 7 is studied. This indicates that the ammonium carbonate precipitation tolerates 2 g/l of thorium and 10 g/l of iron keeping losses of uranium to a minimum. If the feed solution contains more than a tolerable concentration of thorium the precipitation is followed in two steps: (1) Bulk of the thorium is removed by oxalate precipitation, (2) the remaining thorium and iron in the supernatant are removed by ammonium carbonate precipitation. A flow sheet is proposed for the purification of ²³³U from thorium and iron present in a strip product concentrate obtained during the reprocessing of irradiated thorium rods.     

Potentiometric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate indirect determinations

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been used as a reducing agent to determine indirectly potassium dichromate, hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, potassium chlorate, potassium bromate, and ceric sulphate by a potentiometric method. An excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances in an acid medium is titrated with a standard solution of potassium permanganate, using platinum foil as an oxidation-reduction electrode coupled with a saturated calomel electrode through an agar-agar potassium chloride bridge.     

Volumetric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate indirect determinations

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been. used as a reducing agent in acid medium for the indirect volumetric estimations of potassium chlorate, potassium bromate, potassium metaperiodate, potassium, dichromate, potassium ferricyanide, potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, hydrogen peroxide and ceric sulphate. The excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances was titrated with standard potassium permanganate and also with. standard potassium dichromate solution. In case of potassium bromate or potassium metaperiodate the end-point was not sharp in potassium dichromate titrations; while accurate volumetric observations were made with standard potassium permanganate solution.     

Rapid determination of thorium in ores : Separation as iodate in presence of oxalic acid

It has been shown that thorium could be precipitated quantitatively in 40% nitric acid solution as iodate, in presence of oxalic acid which complexes all those elements that interfere seriously in the usual iodate procedure. Thorium is thus freed from all the cations in a single operation from solutions containing sulphate and phosphate radicals. The method is very quick and thorium oxide in a sample of monazitc could be estimated with precision in 8–9 hours.     

Analysis of tellurides of lead and tin by automatic titrations

An analytical method based on automatic potentiometric EDTA and redox titrations was developed for the analysis of tellurides of lead and tin.First, the sum of lead and tin is titrated at pH 4.5 by adding a known excess of EDTA and back-titrating with a standard lead solution. After addition of ammonium fluoride to mask the tin, the EDTA released from the Sn-EDTA complex is titrated with standard lead solution. Alternatively, after the determination of total lead and tin, lead may be determined by back-titration with standard lead on a separate sample aliquot using tartaric acid to mask the tin. Tellurium is separated as tellurous acid, which is then dissolved in a dilute sulfuric acid solution and oxidized by permanganate at room temperature; the excess permanganate is back-titrated with iron(II) solution automatically. This titration may also be used to determine tellurium in the presence of lead and tin after treatment with perchloric acid. Accuracies of 0.1-0.2% can be obtained.     

Potentiometric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Oxidation with chloramine-b. indirect determinations

Chloramine-B has been used as an oxidising agent to determine indirectly potassium iodate, potassium metaperiodate, potassium, bromate, potassium dichromate, hydrogen peroxide, chloramine-T and potassium permanganate by a potentiometric method. An excess of potassium iodide added to each of the substances in an acid medium is titrated back with a standard solution of chloramine-B, using platinum foil as an oxidation-reduction electrode coupled with a saturated calomel electrode through an agar-agar potassium chloride bridge.     

The determination, in forensic toxicology, of metallic poisons by paper chromatography

Summary Precipitation of ThFe(CN)₆ from a solution of thorium nitrate with potassium ferrocyanide at varius concentrations has been carried out for the estimation of thorium. The precipitate was filtered and the excess of ferrocyanide was titrated with standard ceric sulphate solution. The amount of potassium ferrocyanide thus used was obtained and the amount of thorium calculated.Having established by the physico-chemical methods that the formula for thorium ferrocyanide is ThFe(CN)₆, under all conditions, it has now become possible to estimate thorium volumetrically by the ferrocyanide method.     

Thermometrische Schnellanalyse von Martin- und Hochofenschlacken sowie anderen Silicaten

Summary A novel method has been developed for the rapid analysis of silicates. Each component is determined from the temperature variation of the solution resulting from the addition to the test solution of a selectively reacting reagent. By suitable construction of the instrument the concentration of the component to be determined can be read directly in per cent. The determination of a component takes usually 4 to 8 minutes.In the test solution a temperature change proportional to the concentration of the component to be determined has been produced by the following reagents: sulphuric acid for barium, ammonium peroxodisulphate for iron, hydrogen peroxide for titanium, hydrofluoric acid for silicic acid, potassium permanganate for sulphur, ammonium molybdate and hydrogen peroxide for phosphate, potassium permanganate for manganese, potassium oxalate for calcium, diammonium hydrogenphosphate for magnesium, ascorbic acid for chromium. The above components can be determined without any separations. Only in the case of aluminium a separation of silicic acid from aluminium by dehydrating with perchloric acid in necessary. Thereafter the aluminium can be determined with hydrofluoric acid.The precision of the determinations is practically identical with the precision of the usual plant methods.     

Potentiometric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate ceric sulphate method

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been used as a reducing agent to determine indirectly potassium permanganate, ceric sulphate, potassium chlorate, hydrogen peroxide, potassium persulphate, potassium dichromate and potassium bromate by a potentiometric method. An excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances in acid medium was titrated with a standard solution of ceric sulphate, using platinum foil as an oxidation-reduction electrode coupled with a saturated calomel electrode through an agar-agar potassium chloride bridge.     

流动注射在线氧化荧光分析法测定柳氮磺吡啶

研究了硫酸介质中,高锰酸钾氧化柳氮磺吡啶（SASP）体系的荧光特性,结合流动注射进样技术,建立了流动注射在线氧化荧光分析测定SASP的新方法。SASP本身不发荧光,但在硫酸介质中与高锰酸钾反应后可产生1种有强荧光的产物（λex=301 nm,λem=366 nm）。在优化条件下,SASP的质量浓度在1.2×10-5~2.0×10-3 g/L范围内与相对荧光强度呈良好线性,相关系数为0.999 6。方法的检出限为3.0×10-6 g/L,对1.2×10-4 g/L的SASP标准溶液平行测定11次的相对标准偏差为0.6%。该法简单、快速、灵敏度高、选择性好,可用于药物制剂中SASP含量的直接分析。     

Accurate determination of trace amounts of thorium in silicate rocks by cation-exchange chromatography and spectrophotometry

Thorium in four of the South African NIMROC standards and in four secondary standards is determined accurately by means of spectrophotometry with arsenazo-III after a selective cation-exchange separation on an AG50W-X4 resin column. All other elements are eluted with 6 M hydrobromic acid before the final elution of thorium with 5 M nitric acid. Small amounts of zirconium which may be present in the thorium eluate, are effectively complexed with oxalic acid which also eliminates the spectrophotometric interferences caused by organic material leached from the resin column. The accuracy and precision of the method are demonstrated by the analysis of synthetic mixtures containing various amounts of thorium. Amounts of 10 and 100 μg of thorium can finally be determined with coefficients of variation of 1% and 0.2%, respectively.     

Gasometric determination of formic and oxalic acids

A method for the determination of formic and oxalic acids ( > 2.5 μmol) is based on the catalytic dehydration of formic and oxalic acids with acetic anhydride and measurement of the volume of liberated carbon monoxide. Formic acid (0.8–4.0 mg) can be determined in admixture with oxalic acid if the latter is first oxidized with permanganate in acidic medium. The error of a single determination of one acid does not exceed 3% (95% confidence).     

Precipitation behavior of uranium in multicomponent solution by oxalic acid

A study on the precipitation of uranium by oxalic acid was carried out in a multicomponent solution. The precipitation method is usually applied to the treatment of radioactive waste and the recovery of uranium from a uranium-scrap contaminated with impurities. In these cases, the problem is how to increase the precipitation yield of target element and to prevent impurities from coprecipitation. The multicomponent solution in the present experiment was prepared by dissolving U, Nd, Cs and Sr in nitric acid. The effects of concentrations of oxalic acid and ascorbic acid on the precipitation yield and purity of uranium were observed. As results of the study, the maximum precipitation yield of uranium is revealed to be about 96.5% and the relative precipitation ratio of Nd, Cs and Sr versus uranium are discussed at the condition of the maximum precipitation yield of uranium, respectively.     

Flow injection spectrophotometric or conductometric determination of ascorbic acid in a vitamin C tablet using permanganate or ammonia

Two simple flow injection (FI) procedures for the determination of ascorbic acid content in a vitamin C tablet are proposed: spectrophotometric involving injection into a stream of acidic potassium permanganate solution and monitoring its color change due to the redox reaction; FI conductometry based on the neutralization of ascorbic acid injected into a flowing ammonia solution yielding a change in conductivity. The procedures have been applied to the analysis of locally commercial vitamin C tablet samples. A through-put of at least 90 injections h⁻¹ can be achieved. The relative standard deviation was found to be 2.5% (for a 50 mg vitamin C tablet; n=7) for both. Results obtained by either procedure agree with a standard titrimetric method.     

KMnO4-乙二醛化学发光体系测定阿魏酸

酸性介质下,KMnO4氧化阿魏酸产生化学发光,乙二醛对该体系有增敏作用。结合流动注射技术,建立了测定阿魏酸的流动注射化学发光新方法。该方法线性范围为1.0×10-7～2.0×10-5mol/L,检出限为1.0×10-8mol/L,对1.0×10-6mol/L的阿魏酸平行测定11次,相对标准偏差为2.8%。该法用于太太美容口服液中阿魏酸的测定,结果令人满意。