Abstract
We compared two analytical values for sulfur species in water samples of Yugama, a crater lake of the Kusatsu-Shirane volcano, collected between 1966 and 1995. One analytical method was ion chromatograph, by which concentrations of the sulfate ion (SO42-) were determined. The other was gravimetric analysis preceded by oxidation of the samples, by which total concentrations of sulfur species (T-SO42-) were determined. The concentration differences between the two were in good accordance with the total concentration of poly-thionates reported by Takano and Watanuki (1990) through the whole period studied. This suggested that the concentration difference between SO42-) and T-SO42- can be used to estimate the concentrations of dissolved poly-thionates. In this way we can grasp very easily the secular change of the total concentration of poly-thionates without any special analytical conditions and/or instruments.
