A few remarks on the identification of inorganic compounds

✍ Scribed by M. Lederer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 258 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1873-3778
• DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)85570-9

✦ Synopsis

Ininorganicchemistry wehavetwo distinct identification problems,&. (a) the indication of an element in a sample, and (b) the identification of an inorganic compound by chromatography.

IDENTIFICATION OF AN ELEMENT

The identification of an element in a sample, i.e. to tell whether there is copper or bismuth in a sample, has been dealt with repeatedly and can be approached in numerous ways. I do not intend to discuss it here because methods better than chromatography are usually available; the only exception is perhaps the identification of carrier-free radioactive isotopes. Chromatography is only preferred in certain types of qualitative analysis, such as geochemical prospecting, where it is simpler than many instrumental methods.