| Solution of uranium required | 15.3 | cubic | centimeters. |
| Correction | 0.2 | “ | “ |
| Actual quantity of uranium solution | 15.1 | “ | “ |
Strength of the solution of uranium, one cubic centimeter = fivemilligrams P₂O₅.
Then P₂O₅ in 0.50 gram of the material = 5 × 15.1 = 75.50 milligrams.
| Then the per cent of P₂O₅ = | 75.5 x 100 | = 15.10. |
| 50 |
The sample under examination ought always to be prepared in duplicate, either by making a single precipitation and re-solution of the ammonium magnesium phosphate which is made up to a certain volume and an aliquot portion of which is taken for the analysis, or by making two precipitations under the conditions previously described. When the content of phosphoric acid in the material under examination is very nearly known, the double operation may be avoided, especially if it be required to have rapid and only approximate analyses, such as those which are made for general control and for the conduct of manufacturing operations. But when analyses are to be used to serve as the basis of a law or for the control of a market, they should always be made in duplicate, and the results ought not to be accepted when the numbers obtained are widely different, since the agreement of the two numbers will show that the work has been well executed.
This method of analysis, much longer to describe than to execute, gives results perfectly exact and always concordant when it is well carried out, provided that the standard solutions, upon which it rests for its accuracy, are correctly prepared and frequently verified in the manner indicated.
The strength of the solution of uranium ought to be verified every three or four days. The strength of the standard solution of phosphoric acid should be verified each time that the temperature of the laboratory undergoes any important change. A solution prepared, for example, in winter when the temperature of the laboratory is from 15° to 18° would no longer be exact in summer when the temperature reaches 28° or 30°.
100. Condition of Phosphoric Acid in Superphosphates.—Superphosphates are the products of the decomposition of phosphates by sulfuric or hydrochloric acid. They contain phosphoric acid combined with water, with lime, with magnesia, and with iron and alumina in various proportions.
These combinations may be classed in three categories: First, those compounds soluble in water; second, those insoluble in water, but very soluble in ammoniacal salts of the organic acids such as the citrate and oxalate; and third, phosphates not soluble in any of the above-named reagents.
In the products soluble in water are met free phosphoric acid, monocalcium phosphate, acid magnesium phosphate, and the iron and aluminum phosphates dissolved in the excess of phosphoric acid. In the products insoluble in water but soluble in the ammonium citrate are found bicalcium phosphate and iron and aluminum phosphates, which together constitute the phosphates called reverted.