An Attempt to Investigate the Reduction of Ruthenium Tetroxide by Potentiometric Methods
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Brady, Frank H.
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Ruthenium
Reduction (Chemistry)
Potentiometry
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The title page indicates that this thesis was submitted "in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry." The titration curve for osmium tetroxide is similiar to the one obtained for ruthenium tetroxide becauee there is a minimum on each curve and the potential increases with each addition of
HCl. . . . Another point of interest is the fact that the voltage of the osmium tetroxide solution varied betweon rather large limits. This may be due to the oxidizing action of osmium tetroxide on
the faint tracee bf impurties present in the water. It seems that if chemically pure water was used there ought to be no voltage detected. In each curve, no matter what the initial voltage was,
for any definite amount of' HCl added to the solution the potential was almost the same. [From Conclusion]