Summary for cadmium plating carbonate titration Discussion
carbonates in cadmium plating solution can be measured by autotitration, but the thread suggests indirect methods are more practical than a direct cadmium-carbonate titration. Samantha Mackins asked whether others had success using an auto-titrator for sodium carbonates in cadmium solution. A. Diane said several approaches are possible, but most are indirect and the method must be verified for accuracy. She suggested a barium ISE titration with barium chloride, where barium carbonate precipitates until carbonate is consumed and the electrode then detects excess barium; she cautioned that results depend on software, instrumentation, and proper ISE use. Nigel Gill offered a more manual procedure: add barium chloride to precipitate carbonate, filter, wash, then titrate the collected precipitate with 1.0N hydrochloric acid using methyl orange, with a calculation of titre mls × 5.3 = g/l sodium carbonate. His method is presented as a practical workaround rather than an autotitrator-specific solution.
I am an Environmental Chemist and work for an aviation company who carrys out electroplating as one of their accessory services. We have recently decided to start doing all the analysis of our solutions in-house using an auto-titrator. This equipment works very well for many of the tests which need to be carried out but I have a problem with determining sodium carbonates in a cadmium solution. Does anyone else have success with auto-titration for determining cadmium carbonates?
Samantha Mackins
– Kent, United Kingdom
2005
There are a number of ways that it could be done. Most of them will be indirect methods and you will need to verify the accuracy of your method. One indirect method is to use a barium ISE and titrate with barium chloride. Barium carbonate will precipitate as long as there is carbonate in the sample. When the carbonate has all reacted, the ISE will start detecting the barium ions from the titrant. The success that you will have with this will depend a good deal on your software, instrumentation, and your knowledge about the proper use of ISE’s. If your titrator allows for thermometric detection, a simple direct method is possible with barium chloride.
Jon Barrows, MSF, EHSSC
Independence MO
2005
Q. Do you have an analysis for troubleshooting carbonates in a Cadmium plating tank?
Diane Brady
Plating /Analysis Tech – Baltimore, Maryland, USA
September 17, 2008
A. Diane,
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Add 10% Barium Chloride solution until no more precipitate forms then filter through a Whatman 40 filter paper. Wash the filter paper and beaker thoroughly with hot de-ionised water until the final washing no longer turns pH indicator paper blue. Transfer the filter paper back to the original beaker, pulp up the filter paper and add 200 mls of de-ionised water and a few drops of methyl orange
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Titrate with 1.0N Hydrochloric Acid while stirring the pulped paper with the boiling rod.
End-point is Orange TO red
Calculation is Titre mls 1.0N Hydrochloric Acid x 5.3 = g/l Sodium Carbonate
Good luck and hope this helps!
Nigel Gill, BSc MIMF MRSC
– Glasgow, Scotland