Microcoulometric measurement of water in minerals

Analytica Chimica Acta
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Abstract

A DuPont Moisture Analyzer is used in a microcoulometric method for determining water in minerals. Certain modifications, which include the heating of the sample outside the instrument, protect the system from acid gases and insure the conversion of all hydrogen to water vapor. Moisture analyzer data are compared to concurrent data obtained by a modified Penfield method. In general, there is a positive bias of from 0.1 to 0.2% in the moisture analyzer results and a similarity of bias in minerals of the same kind. Inhomogeneity, sample size, and moisture pick-up are invoked to explain deviations. The method is particularly applicable to small samples.


Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Microcoulometric measurement of water in minerals
Series title Analytica Chimica Acta
DOI 10.1016/S0003-2670(01)81898-5
Volume 60
Issue 1
Year Published 1972
Language English
Publisher Elsevier
Description 10 p.
First page 183
Last page 192
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