Application

Manganate and Permanganate in

pickling baths
Direct photometric determination as manganate/
permanganate

Materials und Reagents:

Reagents
Cat. No. 109141 Sodium hydroxide solution 0.1 mol/l Titripur®

Instruments
Cat. No. 173016 Spectroquant® Vis Spectrophotometer Prove 100 or
Cat. No. 173017 Spectroquant® UV/Vis Spectrophotometer Prove 300 or
Cat. No. 173018 Spectroquant® UV/Vis Spectrophotometer Prove 600

Materials
Cat. No. 114946 Rectangular cells 10 mm

Sample preparation:
Pipette 5 ml of bath solution into a 50-ml standard volumetric flask, fill up to volume with sodium hydroxide solution
0.1 mol/l and mix well. From this solution pipette 1 ml into 100-ml standard volumetric flask and fill up to volume
with sodium hydroxide solution 1 mol/l and mix well, too. This solution can be used for determination.

Attention: The determination has to take place as quickly as possible, because the sample changes after dilution.

Analysis:
Determine the K2MnO4 - and the KMnO4 - content by measuring the absorbance at 525 nm and 585 nm in cells
of 10-mm cell length against sodium hydroxide solution 0.1 mol/l as a blank in the Prove spectrophotometer.

Calculation:
Manganate:
K2MnO4 content in g/l = (A585 x 105.86) - (A525 x 12.39)

Permanganate:
KMnO4 content in g/l = (A585 x 65.83) - (A525 x 16.36)

A= Absorbance at wavelength.

Ordering Information
Product Catalog No.
Sodium hydroxide solution c(NaOH) = 0.1 mol/l (0.1 N) Titripur® Reag. Ph Eur,Reag. USP 109141
Prove 100 VIS Spectrophotometer 4 nm spectral bandwidth Spectroquant® 173016
Prove 300 UV/VIS spectrophotometer 4 nm spectral bandwidth Spectroquant® 173017
Prove 600 UV/VIS spectrophotometer 1.8 nm spectral bandwidth Spectroquant® 173018
Rectangular cells 10 mm Spectroquant® 114946

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+49(0)6151 72-2440
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Merck KGaA, 64271 Darmstadt, Germany, Tel. 2017-05-15 Page 2 of 2

+49(0)6151 72-2440
EMD Millipore Corporation, 290 Concord Road,
Billerica, MA 01821, USA, +1-978-715-4321