Complex citrates of metals in inorganic analysis

Summary

A new method has been described for the quantitative separation of silver and lead in a solution. The method consists of adding an excess of sodium citrate solution to the solution of the mixture, when the insoluble citrates of silver and lead which at first precipitate out, redis-solve due to the formation of complex citrates. By the addition of hydro-chlorid acid to the solution, only silver chloride precipitates out and may be estimated gravimetrically. In the filtrate lead may be estimated gravimetrically as lead chromate. The method described here is quite reliable, as the results obtained by the analysis of a number of mixtures of different compositions have been found to be very satisfactory, the errors lying within permissible limits.