Total Soluble Sulphate Content (By Volumetric Method) (IS: 2720 - Part - 27)
Total Soluble Sulphate Content (By Volumetric Method) (IS: 2720 - Part - 27)
Total Soluble Sulphate Content (By Volumetric Method) (IS: 2720 - Part - 27)
A. Sample Preparation: Take about 100 grams of oven dried soil sample
and sieve it in a 425 micron IS Sieve.
B. Preparation of Reagents:
D. Calculations:
Sulphates as Sodium Sulphate in Soil, percent by mass
= 0.0177 x (X – Y)
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DETERMINATION OF ORGANIC MATTER IN SOILS ( IS: 2720 – Part – 22)
A. Sample Preparation:
B. Preparation of Reagents:
D. Procedure:
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1. Take 5 grams of soil sample of 425 micron IS sieve passing in 500
ml conical flask.
2. Add 10 ml of Potassium Dichromate solution.
3. Add 20 ml of concentrated Sulphuric acid and allowed to 30
minutes on a heat insulating surface like asbestos sheet.
4. Add 200 ml distilled water, 10 ml of Ortho Phosphoric acid, 1 ml
of the Indicator and the mixture shall be shake vigorously.
5. Ferrous Sulphate solution added through burette in 0.5 ml
increments, up to the solution changes from blue to green.
6. Add 0.5 ml Potassium Dichromate, then solution changing the
color back to blue.
7. And then Ferrous Sulphate added drop by drop until the color of
the solution changes from blue to green. Measure the total volume
of Ferrous Sulphate solution in ml and recorded it as ‘Y’.
E. Calculations:
= (0.67W2V) / (W1W3)
B. Preparation of Reagents:
C. Procedure:
E. Calculations:
1. Chloride(mg/l or ppm)
Y = (X x 35.46 x 1000 x 0.0156) / (ml of sample taken)
2. Salinity (ppt or gms/lt)
= 0.03 + 1.806 x Chlorides in g/lt.
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