As a rapid determination of nitric acid or nitrate radical in sample acidified with concentrated hydrochloric acid, the solution was reduced with ferrous sulfate solution in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, the Fe
+3 thus formed was titrated, while hot, with a standard stannous chloride solution and the following results were obtained:
(1) An addition of 20ml 1
N FeSO
4 solution to 70 ml concentrated HCl and boiling for 5 minutes resulted a complete reduction of nitrate radical.
(2) Application of this method to the determination of ammonium nitrate in concentrated ammonium sulfate solution gave a result in 10-12 minutes and the result agreed with that determined by nitrometer method.
(3) Application of this method to the determination of nitric acid in nitric acid-sulfuric acid mixture, and a correction was made by a separate determination of N
2O
4 in the mixed acid, gave aresult agreed well with that of nitrometer method.
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