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1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology,London, S.W.7 U.K.
Abstract:
An absorptiometric method is described for sulphide ion, based on the green colour which is formed when sulphide ions are treated in ammoniacal solution with iron(III) and an excess of nitrilotriacetic acid. The recommended procedure can be applied from 1200 down to 8 ppm of sulphide and is interfered with seriously only by selenite from amongst seventeen other anions examined. The colour system is stabilized by an excess of sulphite. Suggestions are made about the nature of the colour body and its mechanism of production.
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