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Topic: Determining % Na2O (Sodium oxide) and silica in a sodium silicate solution  (Read 2872 times)

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Offline Adeson91

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Hello, I am a chemical Engineering student currently working on my final year project on sodium silicate as detergent binder and I urgently need an accurate  chemical analysis on how I can know the % silica and sodium oxide in a given sample of sodium silicate and how to determine the mass concentration of the sodium silicate.I will be most grateful to anyone who can assist me with an accurate and precise answer. thanks.

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Tanx for that correction @billnotgatez, actually I have tried a method I saw in a handbook that recommend using 2N of HCl to titrate against 50ml of the sample gotten from diluting 25g of the sample to 500ml of deionized water. the problem I had with this method was that a concise formular is not available to input the parameters in other to arrive at the result

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