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headache question
« on: March 15, 2008, 11:06:48 AM »
what are the products form when potassium dichromate reacts with sulphuric acid???

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Re: headache question
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 06:24:11 PM »
Potassium dichromate / sulfuric acid:   (chromosulfuric acid) 

Eqn: K2Cr2O7 + 4H2SO4   ------> 2KCr(SO4)2   + 7H2O

This material has many uses.  It can be used as a cleaning agent for laboratory glassware.  Potassium dichromate (usually acidified with sulfuric acid), or any other dichromate for that matter, can be used to determine the amount of ethanol in a solution using back titration.   It can also be used as a universal visualization reagent for organic compounds (e.g,, alcohols, bile acids, lipds) in TLC (thin layer chromatography) analyses.

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