The author studied the photometric method for the determination of small amounts of chromium and nickel in iron and steel and found the following most suitable: Cr; Dissolve a sample in a mixture of HNO
3, H
2SO
4 and H
3PO
4, add KMnO
4, reduce the excess of KMnO
4 with urea and NaNO
2, add diphenylcarbazide, add HF to prevent the interference of Fe
+++ and measure the extinction. This method requires only 12 to 13 minutes and is applicable to iron and steel containing 0.005 to 0.78% of Cr. Ni; Dissolve a sample in HNO
3 and HClO
4, evaporate to fume, cool, add water to dissolve salts, dilute to 250 mL, take 25 mL of the supernatant liquid into a measuring flask of 100 mL, add citric acid and NH
4OH, mix well, cool, then add I
2 and dimethylglyoxime NaOH solution, dilute to the mark and measure the extinction. The time for analysis is only 10 to 12 minutes and 0.001 to 0.7% of Ni can be determined by this method.
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