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- From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: simple way to measure reducing agent strength?
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- Summary: Mild oxidants are good for titrating reductants
- Keywords: iodine
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:05:59 GMT
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- Iodine is a good mild oxidant for titrating reducing solutions to see if they
- are up to strength (a bit of soluble starch can be used as an indicator).
- Another approach would be to add an excess of a mild oxidant (perhaps
- dipyridyl disulfide--that's pretty mild) and back-titrate.
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- Steve
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