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2Ag + +CrO 2- 4 →Ag 2 CrO 4 (s)<br />

Materials<br />

0.005M AgNO 3 standard solution<br />

5% potassium chromate solution<br />

Burette<br />

100ml conical flasks<br />

Experimental procedure<br />

Pipette 20ml of water extract into a 100ml conical flask and add the 1ml indicator of<br />

potassium chromate solution and titrate as a solution of AgNO 3 to precipitate silver chromate<br />

which has a distinctive reddish-brown color.<br />

8. Determination of content sulphate ion<br />

Methodology<br />

An excess of barium chloride (BaCl 2 ) is added to the sample. The barium ion reacts with the<br />

sulfate to precipitate barium sulfate crystals of uniform size:<br />

Ba 2+ + SO 2- 4 →BaSO 4(S)<br />

The colloidal suspension is measured using a spectrophotometer and the sulfate concentration<br />

determined by comparison with standards. Suspended particles present in large amounts will<br />

interfere and these can be removed by filtration. Highly colored samples may give erroneous<br />

results.<br />

Materials<br />

Spectrophotometer and absorption cell<br />

Barium chloride, crystalline<br />

Sodium chloride-hydrochloric acid reagent<br />

Glycerol-ethanol solution<br />

Standard sulfate solution, 100mg/l<br />

Experimental procedure<br />

Measure 10ml of sample into a 25ml flack and add 2ml of the NaCl-HCl solution and 2ml of<br />

the glycerol-alcohol solution. Add approximately 0.03g barium chloride. Stir for 2 min<br />

exactly after adding the barium chloride. Immediately pour some solution into an absorption<br />

cell and measure the absorbance at 420nm after exactly 3 min. Prepare series of calibration<br />

standards by pipetting aliquots of the standard sulfate solution corresponding to between 0.5<br />

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