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Atomic Layer Deposition of Vanadium Dioxide and a Temperature-dependent Optical Model
Published on: May 23, 2018
Spectrophotometric determination of vanadium after extraction as vanadium(III) picolinate
1Department of Chemistry, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-132119, Haryana, India.
Abstract:
Vanadium(V) is conveniently reduced by sodium dithionite to vanadium(III) which is extracted as its picolinate complex into chloroform. Vanadium is determined spectrophotometrically by measuring the absorbance of the complex at 385 nm against a reagent blank, Beer's law being obeyed over the range 1-50 microg/ml. The method is one of the most selective, being free from interference by relatively high concentrations of almost all the important elements, titanium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, zinc, copper, aluminium, molybdenum, tungsten and uranium, found in industrial alloys. Only bismuth interferes. The method is quite simple and rapid. It has been successfully applied for the analysis of vanadium in a variety of samples.
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