Doing some stream monitoring as a school project. Does anyone have a basic, clear procedure for this? We've got an inexpensive spectrophotometer.
The sampled area in question has come up with concentrations ranging from 0.01-4.20 in the past. Ozone - 30-1-2011 at 08:32
Those look a lot safer (and more reliable) than the classical method (which I have attached, Purdy 1955). ***Well, maybe not. It looks like the modern
test kits are not much advanced over the 1955 procedure. A competitor (Lamotte, attached) actually describes their 3 "magic" reagents A-C as "hardness
reagent", manganese reagent (PAN, (1-[2-Pyridylazo]-2-Naphthol), and NaCN (10%) stabilizer.
The color of Mn 7+ is intense and can be easily seen (naked eye) at ppm concentrations. If you can see it, the spec can see it--if you tell it where
to look.
The UV-VIS absorption for Mn 7+ is complex and interesting, I would recommend that you measure a known amount of that at 2-4 nm intervals (e.g. manual
scanning of the absorbance wavelength) between 425 and 600nm and plot the absorbances on graph paper, or on the computer. The best absorbance
(highest) would be chosen for further analytical work.
You can check your findings against the attached .ppt (not mine, but I could not get a url for it).
Doing some stream monitoring as a school project. Does anyone have a basic, clear procedure for this? We've got an inexpensive spectrophotometer.
The sampled area in question has come up with concentrations ranging from 0.01-4.20 in the past.
0.01-4.20 of what? Apples? Pears? Airheads?Ozone - 30-1-2011 at 14:38
I assumed mg/L.elvisd - 30-1-2011 at 17:26
mg/L. I guess I was the airhead. Sorry.
Thank you for the valuable information, Ozone. Very rewarding.
