Non-aqueous determination of inorganic salts

The procedures suggested for the determination of salts in nonaqueous solutions have been limited almost wholly to the analysis of amine salts and salts of the alkali and alkaline earth metals. Other salts are usually assayed by a variety of specific cationic or anionic procedures. By the proposed method, salts of all types can be determined titrimetrically so long as the compound will participate in an anion-exchange reaction. The procedure simply involves acidification of the salt with an excess of a strong acid, addition of a nonaqueous solvent and a differentiating potentiometric titration. Carbonate and hydroxide impurities do not interfere in the analysis and the solubility difficulties experienced in other nonaqueous procedures are not encountered in this method.