Colorant testing instrumental analysis

The normality of KOH in its aqueous solution can he determined by acid-base titration against a standard solution of HCl, H2SO4, or HNO3 using a color indicator or by a pH meter. Potassium can be identified by flame test or by wet methods or instrumental analysis (see Potassium). 

The choice of instrumental technique used in any analysis depends upon the motive behind the analysis and on the nature of the sample. Normal procedure when dealing with bulk samples is to perform presumptive color tests to identify the drug class followed by TLC to identify the specific member of the drug class. When dealing with trace samples, it is often the case that these nonconfirmatory tests are circumvented and confirmatory tests only are employed. The choice of confirmatory test now depends on the motive behind the analysis as indicated below. The choice of technique will also depend upon the nature of the analytes under investigation. 

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In the search for unknown drugs and/or pharmaceuticals in body fluids, a combined instrumental approach is especially helpful. Table III shows our extraction scheme. For drug analysis, steam distillation is usually omitted. Different extraction steps isolate the strongly acidic, weakly acidic, neutral, basic and amphoteric compounds in separate fractions. All are analyzed by UV-spectro-photometry, in organic solution and (with the exception of the neutral extract) also in water at 3 different pH-values. Thin- layer chromatography, color tests, IR- and fluorescence-spectrophotometry may yield additional information. Fractions of interest are analyzed by GC-MS. 

Strontium and all its compounds impart crimson red color in the flame test. The metal in trace concentrations can be analyzed by various instrumental methods that include flame-and fumace-AA, ICP-AES, ICP/MS, x-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation analysis. 

The instrument used in colorimetry is called colorin eter it determines and specifies colors by referring to other colors. This process will permit,by the proper selection of suitable reagents, the identification of principle ingredients in the sample tested when it is in solution. The depth of color, measured by the colorimeter, gives the quantity of material present in a solution. This is known as colorimetric analysis (See also Color... 

Prior to the advent of sophisticated mechanical and electrical instrumentation, the observation of thermal phenomena was restricted to systems which were amenable to detection by the human senses. Such observations included investigations of boiling or melting processes, sublimation, fractional crystallization, color changes and the occurrence of odors. With the invention of the thermometer, the first quantitative experiment was made possible. Development of thermometry led to "thermal analysis by recording the temperature of a test material as a function of time. Further developments led to calorimetry — the science of measuring quantities of heat. 

Analysis and characterisation of colorants involves many steps with a range of factors that need to be taken into consideration and not only during the actual analysis. It cannot be emphasised strongly enough that the key steps, in nearly all characterisation tests and analytical measurements, are those that occur before the sample goes anywhere near a characterisation/analytical instrument. 

The systematic development of spot test methods of analysis occupied Fritz Feigl in Vienna and Rio de Janeiro for half a century up to 1970. Although in the past few decades chemical analysis has undergone a formidable process of sophistication with the development of advanced instrumental tools, there has been at the same time a contrary trend toward simplification in selected areas in the form of simple, rapid, and inexpensive spot and screening tests. Commercial companies are selling large numbers of compact spot test systems for the rapid establishment of the presence or absence of particular substances in clinical, food, water, soil, and forensic samples. The tests are essentially qualitative, but often can be semiquantitative if procedures as simple as visual comparison of color intensity are used. 

Other uses of an IR microscope in forensic analysis include the examination of fibers, drugs, and traces of explosives. For example, oxidation of hair can occur chemically or by sunlight oxidation of cystine to cysteic acid can be seen in hair fibers by FTIR microscopy (Robotham and Izzia). Excellent examples in full color of FTIR imaging microscopy can be found on the websites of companies like PerkinElmer and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Our limitations in use of gray scale make many of the examples unsuited for reproduction in the text. A novel IR microscope combined with atomic force microscopy, the nanoIR platform from Anasys Instruments (www.anasysinstruments.com), permits nanoscale IR spectroscopy, AFM topography, nanoscale thermal analysis, and mechanical testing. 

Similarly, we might be detecting an adverse effect by the test for a certain chemical or enzyme that is produced in an organ. In this instance, the sensitivity of the chemical test will be the limit of detection for the analysis. For example, perhaps 25 years ago the nature of the test using a chemical or instrumental technique could only detect a level of 10 ppm. (Below 10 ppm there is no observable color change or response from the instrument over the noise level this is the limit of detection .) Thus, if a toxicant were to produce the enzyme at 5 ppm, the old test would not detect this and the NOAEL dose would have been reached. Perhaps today, more sensitive tests would easily find the 5 ppm (or much lower) and the NOAEL would have to be re-tested. 

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