Apparatus for the separation of traces of silicon and its colorimetric determination in refractory metals
Abstract
A distillation technique is described for the separation of traces of silicon (<100 p.p.m.) from niobium, tantalum, molybdenum and tungsten. The silicon is then determined colorimetrically by the molybdenum-blue method. The error in the results is not greater than ±5 p.p.m.