Fast Grey R.A. as a new colorimetric reagent

Summary Fast Grey R.A. dye can be used for the colorimetric microdetermination of vanadium in the limits of 0.01 to 1 ppm with a sensitive photometer and 0.05 to 8 ppm with a Beckman instrument, at 560 m. A large number of cations and anions up to 10 fold the vanadium amount do not interfere with its determination. Interference due to ferric iron up to an average of 40 fold or copper up to 2 fold the vanadium concentration is simply eliminated by reduction with ascorbic acid and heating in the case of iron or by the same treatment and the addition of ammonium thiocyanate solution in the case of copper.Part II: See Z. analyt. Chem. 158, 103 (1957).