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The Experiment
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Six 0.5% solutions of gelatin of pH values approximately every 0.5 pH unit from 3.5 through 6.0 are prepared by dilution of an aged 1% gelatin stock solution.
This operation is conveniently done by pipetting 50 rnl
portions of gelatin solution into six 100-ml volumetric
flasks, diluting with water to about 20 ml short of the
marks, adding dropwise some previously prepared
dilute HCI ( p H S+ 1) until each solution has a pH near
the desired value and finally diluting to the marks.
Some drift in pH will be observed and sufficient time
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M. E.. "A Short Textbook
of Colloid he-tj," John Wiley and sons, Inc., New York,
1954,pp. 1434.
CANNON,
M. R., AND FENSKE,
M. R., Ind. Eng. Cham., Anal.
Ed., 10,297 (1938).
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must be allowed for the electrodes to come to equilibrium with the solutions before reading the pH. Some
difficulty with foaming may cause trouble in diluting to
the mark, but the error is slight.
The times for flow through the capillary of the viseometer a t 25C are measured for water and the six
gelatin solutions. Drying of the viscometer with
acetone, the usual procedure recommended in texts,
is not necessary so long as the viscometer is carefully
and thoroughly rinsed with the solution to be used.
Drawing the solution up through the capillary into the
storage bulb a t the top and allowing it to drain down
once of its own accord before final measurement usually
insures that the solution is a t the bath temperature.
Large bubbles in the capillary side of the viscometer
can usually be avoided by carefully forcing the solution
in and out of the capillary.
Other Applications
Results
The author is indebted to several students for working out details of the experiment and to Professor
Charlotte I. Damerel of Wilson College for her helpful
suggestions.
' HODGMAN,
C. D., edit, "Handbook of Chemistry and Physics," 38th ed., Chemiml Rubber Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio,
1956, p. 1649.
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