Lead acetate fuchsin reagent

The above substitutes for the iodometric determination with one or two exceptions have not been tested for specificity for free SO2. Mathers (1949) on the basis of the fact that free sulfur dioxide is removed early in the distillation of wine proposed that 10 ml. of the distillate from the alcohol determination be mixed with 0.5 ml. of 5% neutral lead acetate and the turbidity of the suspension formed be used to correct volatile acidity for sulfur dioxide. La Rosa (1950) assumed that the color formed on mixing the fuchsin-sulfuric acid-formaldehyde reagent with white wine was a measure of free SO2 but did not give any data to confirm this. The fuchsin procedure and the lead sulfite procedures are very sensitive, the former more so, and can be applied only to very small aliquots or to dilute solutions. 

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