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ESTIMATION OF HALIDES IN MINERALS, ORES & COMPOUNDS

By: MSK Admin | Friday, April 5th, 2013 | blogs | No Comments

Determination of halide is essential because of their detrimental property in certain compounds along with some beneficial properties. Usually halides are determined by argentometry (volumetric titration with AgNO3 soln with chromate …

ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT OXIDATION STATES OF CHROMIUM

By: MSK Admin | Friday, April 5th, 2013 | blogs | No Comments

Ferro alloys like ferro chrome are mostly produced in submerged electronic arc furnace. This process generates large amounts of slag. The slag is basically M2O3-MgO-SiO2 based with constituent of CaO and …

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF METHANOL

By: MSK Admin | Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 | blogs | No Comments

Introduction Congeners are biologically active chemicals and are often contained in alcoholic beverages, in addition to ethanol, the key biologically active ingredient of alcohol. They are produced in the process …

ESTIMATION OF CO2 IN ROCK PHOSPHATE USING FTIR

By: MSK Admin | Friday, December 7th, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

Phosphate rock denotes the product obtained from the mining and subsequent metallurgical processing of P-bearing ores. In addition to the main phosphate-bearing mineral, Phosphate rock deposits also contain accessory or …

ENDOTOXIN AND ITS IN VITRO TEST

By: MSK Admin | Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

Abstract: About 70 years ago it was coined that there were two types of Bacteria one Gram – Positive and one Gram-Negative (according to Dr. Hans Christian Gram) both of …

ANALYSIS OF SLAG CONTENT IN FERRO ALLOYS PART I

By: MSK Admin | Monday, July 2nd, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

PART I – FERRO MANGANESE Slag is a partially vitreous byproduct of metal smelting to separate the metal fraction from the unwanted fraction. Ores often have unwanted minerals associated with …

DETERMINATION OF GYPSUM CONTENT

By: MSK Admin | Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

Gypsum is used as a building material for different purposes like setting retarder for portland cement, gypsum board, ceramic molding tools etc. However before using, it is important to know …

ANALYSIS OF MELAMINE

By: MSK Admin | Monday, April 2nd, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

Melamine is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazineskeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and, if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or …

ANALYSIS OF PYROXINITE WITH ICP-OES

By: MSK Admin | Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 | blogs | No Comments

Pyroxinite is naturally occurring Magnesium Silicate mineral. It is an ultrabasic igneous rock consisting essentially of minerals of the Pyroxene group. The types of Pyroxene and the ore minerals present …