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[*] posted on 12-4-2014 at 09:48


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Quote: Originally posted by deltaH  
You might want to consider passing your solution through a column filled with beads of the protonated form of a strongly acidic ion exchange resin to remove iron impurities

However, simplicity and economics probably dictate you to simply dispose of the material safely and buy more as the acid is so cheap :)

[Edited on 12-4-2014 by deltaH]

Hallo, yes well after careful deliberation and much planning I decided to opt for your second suggestion:)

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[*] posted on 12-4-2014 at 10:38


yeah... hard choice ;) "money talks, bullshit walks"



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[*] posted on 12-4-2014 at 17:51


Quote: Originally posted by DraconicAcid  


I find this suspicious, because the acidity of the solution will prevent complete ionization of the oxalic acid. I haven't tried that specific reaction, but I do remember doing a lab in which we used sulphuric acid of various concentrations to destroy an iron(III) oxalate complex. The dilute sulphuric acid protonated off the oxalate; the concentrated sulphuric acid decomposed the oxalate to give CO2, CO, and water.


Per an old thread on the preparation of H2SO4 from the action of Oxalic acid on a sulfate (see https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=18... ), it was indeed observed in an attempt to prepare very concentrated Sulfuric acid that a sudden violent ejection of the H2SO4 was observed. This confirms that high strength H2SO4 does indeed decompose H2C2O4 in apparently an unsafe manner.

The general recommendation from that thread is that it is safest to prepare mineral acids using Oxalic acid by targetting only dilute to moderate concentrations.

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[*] posted on 13-4-2014 at 00:31


AJkoer, hallo, yes I read this old thread two days ago, this is where I got the general impression that a dilute solution would work. Have yet to experiment, tied up with two other things at the moment. But i will try The oxalic acid method soon and let people know about the results.



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[*] posted on 14-4-2014 at 04:43


Added oxalic acid to 10mLs H2SO4 in 50mLs water. No precipitate. Does nothing, as has been suggested.



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