veerendra
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how to precipitate ferrous oxalate in solution
Behavious of ferrous oxalate is very complex, I got a pink colour solution during leaching iron oxides using oxalic acid. But I could not able to get
it precipitate ?
I added some alchohal but it not precipitates.
any body has any idea.
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mnick12
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I don't think you have any ferrous oxalate, it is very insoluble in water.
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When conditions are right ferrous oxalate can stay in solution, as I found out when I tried to synthesize it by mixing ferrous chloride and oxalic
acid. I got a yellow solution, but upon heating the ferrous oxalate began to precipitate. I'm not exactly sure of what caused this.
However, the fact that veerendra got a pink solution suggests that it wasn't ferrous oxalate...
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mnick12
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Ferrous oxalate is only sparingly soluble in water, the soluble compound you generated was likely some sort of transient coordination compound.
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Pink? Might there be a manganese impurity in your iron oxide?
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maybe if you evaporate it you might attain pink crystals or powder,nice either way.
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'veerendra' is also the member who is trying to separate Mn and Fe oxides using oxalic acid:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=28564#...
But Mn<sup>2+</sup> pink colour is really only apparent at quite high concentrations or in solids like MnCl<sub>2</sub>
hydrate. Also, Mn (II) oxalate is poorly soluble in water, 0.028 g / 100 g water at 20 C acc. Wikipedia.
[Edited on 2-2-2014 by blogfast25]
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Again my guess is some sort of coordination complex, any sort of electron transfer in the d-orbitals produces intensely colored compound.
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Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25  |
But Mn<sup>2+</sup> pink colour is really only apparent at quite high concentrations or in solids like MnCl<sub>2</sub>
hydrate. Also, Mn (II) oxalate is poorly soluble in water, 0.028 g / 100 g water at 20 C acc. Wikipedia. |
But tris(oxalato)manganate(III) is cherry red- a small amount would make the solution pink.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic00197a041
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I didn't know there was such a thing. But how to get Mn as Mn(III), in this context? That doesn't really happen 'accidentally', I think...
[Edited on 2-2-2014 by blogfast25]
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