Examination of Microanalysis

For
4-th year students of Special Chemistry
Time: 20 minutes
Name:
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Answer the following questions:
A- Show briefly, how can you achieve the following:
1-

Determining Nitrogen content in organic compounds.

2-

Determining Chlorine content in organic compounds.

3-

Determining Carbon content in organic compounds.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------B- Give reason for the following:

1-

Amino acids cannot be estimated directly by titration against NaOH.

2-

Using AgNO3 in determining the M.Wt. of carboxylic acid by silver salt.

3-

Using I2 solution in determining formaldehyde percent in formaline.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------C- Calculate the molecular formula of an organic dibasic acid which gave the next results on analyses:
a)

Combustion of 0.249 gm dicarboxylic acid gave 0.528 gm CO2 and 0.081 gm H2O

b)

Ignition of 1.9 gm of silver salt gave 1.08 gm of silver.

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