Brilliant Blue FCF aluminum lakes were prepared by dyeing aluminum chloride hydroxide substrate gels which were precipitated from an aluminum chloride solution by sodium hydroxide. Examinations were made on the effect of the substrate-precipitating pH, dye content and drying temperature on the composition and anti-eluting strength of the resulting lakes.
The feature observed on dye elution curves in 1% NaCl solution was of the dye-saturated type for all of the lakes prepared with dye anion contents ranging from 14.7 to 37.8%, where the eluted dye concentration was equilibrated with the dye concentration in the peripheral zone of lake particle. The fact that the unsaturated stage was not found in the dye elution feature was quite different from the Tartrazine, Sunset Yellow FCF and Indigo Carmine lakes as reported previously.
Dried lakes liberated Cl ions along with Al ions more than one third molar ratio to Cl ions by extraction with pure water at room temperature. The amount of water-extractable Al salts was larger as the substrate-precipitating pH was lower, as the dye content of the lakes was larger and as the drying temperature was higher.
Comparison of the anti-eluting strength using the
KCD value (
CD; dye content in the lake) was proposed, which would be more practical than using the
K value (
K; distribution coefficient of the dye anion). The lake specimens obtained in this study were stronger by three times in the anti-eluting strength than the most excellent brand of commercially available lakes.
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