Performance of the Orion 97-70 total residual chlorine electrode at low concentrations and its application to the analysis of cooling waters.
The performance characteristics of the Orion 97-70 total residual chlorine electrode have been determined and the electrode has been found to give a near-theoretical response down to chlorine concentrations in the range 1-5 mug/1. Within-batch relative standard deviations are about 6-8% at concentrations above 50 mug/1. and 10-15% at lower levels. The method is virtually free from interferences (only strong oxidizing agents such as permanganate interfere) but large variations in salinity affect the calibration by changing the conditional standard potential. The best performance at low concentrations (<50 mug/1.) is achieved only if the manufacturer's recommended procedure is changed, namely by using a more dilute iodide reagent, stirring constantly, adding the iodide reagent before the buffer solution and using chloramine-T as a standard.
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