Platinum foils

The basic observation is that a thin plate, such as a microscope cover glass or piece of platinum foil, will support a meniscus whose weight both as measured statically or by detachment is given very accurately by the ideal equation (assuming zero contact angle) ... 

If an appreciable amount of residue remains, note its colour. Add a few drops of water and test the solution (or suspension) with htmus or with Universal indicator paper. Then add a httle dilute hydrochloric acid and observe whether efiervesceiice occurs and the residue dissolves. Apply a flame test with a platinum wire on the hydrochloric acid solution to determine the metal present. (In rare cases, it may be necessary to subject a solution of the residue to the methods of qualitative inorganic analysis to identify the metal or metals present.) If the flame test indicates sodium, repeat the ignition of the substance on platinum foil. 

Platinum has many uses in dentistry. Pure platinum foil serves as the matrix in the constmction of fused-porcelain restorations. Platinum foil may be laminated with gold foil for cold-welded foil restorations. Platinum wire has found use as retention posts and pins in crown and bridge restorations. Heating elements and thermocouples in high-fusing porcelain furnaces are usually made of platinum or its alloys (see Platinum-GROUP metals). 

This method involves very simple and inexpensive equipment that could be set up m any laboratory [9, 10] The equipment consists of a 250-mL beaker (used as an external half-cell), two platinum foil electrodes, a glass tube with asbestos fiber sealed m the bottom (used as an internal half-cell), a microburet, a stirrer, and a portable potentiometer The asbestos fiber may be substituted with a membrane This method has been used to determine the fluoride ion concentration in many binary and complex fluondes and has been applied to unbuffered solutions from Willard-Winter distillation, to lon-exchange eluant, and to pyrohydrolysis distil lates obtained from oxygen-flask or tube combustions The solution concentrations range from 0 1 to 5 X 10 M This method is based on complexing by fluonde ions of one of the oxidation states of the redox couple, and the potential difference measured is that between the two half-cells Initially, each cell contains the same ratio of cerium(IV) and cerium(tll) ions... 

Carbon and Hydrogen.—Carbon compounds are frequently inflammable, and when heated on platinum foil take fipe or char and burn away. A safer test is to heat the substance with some easily reducible metallic oxide, the oxygen of which forms carbon diovide with the carbon present. Take a piece of soft glass tube about 13 cm. (5 in.) long, and fuse it together at one end. Heat a gram or two of fine copper oxide in a porcelain crucible for a few minutes to drive off the moisture, and let it cool in a desiccator. Mix it with about one-tenth of its bulk of powdered sugar in a mortar. Pour the mixture into the tube, the open end of which is now drawn out into a wide capillary and oeni. at the same time into the form Fig. i. 

The Action of Heat.—We will assume in the first 1 ic,. S7. plate that the substance is homogeneous and consists of a single individual. Heat a portion on platinum foil and notice if it volatilises, chars, or burns with a clear, luminous, non-Iuminous (aliphatic), or smoky (aromatic) flame. Determine the nature of the residue, if any, when the carbon has burnt away. 

The hydrogen electrode consists of an electrode of platinum foil (approximately 1 X 1 X 0-002 cm) welded to a platinum wire which is fused into a glass tube. In order to increase its catalytic activity it is platinised by making it cathodic in a solution of chloroplatinic acid (2% chloroplatinic acid in 2 N HCl) frequently lead acetate is added to the solution (0-02%) and this appears to facilitate the deposition of an even and very finely divided layer... 

Ey and E2 are the indicator electrodes. These may consist of a tungsten pair for a biamperometric end point for an amperometric end point they may both be of platinum foil or one can be platinum and the other a saturated calomel reference electrode. The voltage impressed upon the indicator electrodes is supplied by battery B (ca 1.5 volts) via a variable resistance Rs N records the indicator current. For a potentiometric end point Ey and E2 may consist of either platinum-tungsten bimetallic electrodes, or Ey may be an S.C.E. and E2... 

Apparatus. Use the apparatus shown in Figs. 14.2(a) and (b). The generator cathode (isolated auxiliary electrode) consists of platinum foil (4 cm x 2.5 cm, bent into a half cylinder) and the generator anode (working electrode) is a rectangular platinum foil (4 cm x 2.5 cm). For potentiometric end point detection, use a platinum-foil electrode 1.25 cm x 1.25 cm (or a silver-rod electrode) in combination with an S.C.E. connected to the cell by a potassium chloride- or potassium nitrate-agar bridge. 

Apparatus. Use the apparatus of Section 14.7. The generator anode is of pure silver foil (3 cm x 3 cm) the cathode in the isolated compartment is a platinum foil (3 cm x 3 cm) bent into a half-cylinder. For the potentiometric end point detection, use a short length of silver wire as the indicator electrode the electrical connection to the saturated calomel reference electrode is made by means of an agar-potassium nitrate bridge. 

FIGURE 1.6 Rutherford s model of the atom explains why most u particles pass almost straight through the platinum foil, whereas a very few—those scoring a direct hit on the nucleus—undergo verv large deflections. Most of the atom is nearly empty space thinly populated by the atom s electrons. The nuclei are much smaller relative to their atoms than shown here. 

ControlW potential electrolyses of dibromostilbenes at poly-7i coated platinum foils gave results similar to those previously observed The electrodes lose... 

Vanadium(II) chloride dissolved in water is slowly oxidised by the solvent with evolution of hydrogen. Contact with platinum foil accelerates the reaction to violence. 

Farkas and Farkas (32) examined the kinetics of the exchange and hydrogenation of benzene catalyzed by platinized platinum foil at room temperature. The occurrence of isotope exchange was detected by the thermal conductivity technique. They reported (i) that the exchange reaction was only a little faster than hydrogenation and (ii) that exchange... 

The preparation is electrolytic. The anode consists of a few inches of thin platinum rod, to one end of which a 1 X f in. piece of platinum foil is attached. This is surrounded by a hollow cylinder of platinum gauze of diameter 1 in. and length 1 - in. The other end of the platinum rod is attached to an electric stirrer. ... 

Torsi et al. [395] have carried out a systematic investigation to establish the potential value of such an apparatus. The apparatus is basically an electrothermal device in which the furnace (or the rod) is replaced by a small crucible made of glassy carbon. Figure 5.10 provides an overall view of the apparatus. Figure 5.11 shows a block diagram of the electrolysis circuit the crucible (6) acts a cathode, while the anode is a platinum foil dipped into either the sample solution reservoir (1) or the washing solution reservoir (2). Pre-elecrolysis was performed at constant current with a 500 V dc variable power supply (5). Under these conditions, the cathode potential is not controlled, so that other metals can be codeposited with lead. 

The mother liquor is evaporated to dryness on the water bath, and the powdered residue is extracted with alcohol in an extraction apparatus. Semicarbazone crystallises out in the flask of the apparatus. If a sample of the main portion of the material leaves a considerable amount of ash when ignited on platinum foil, this portion also should be extracted in the same way. 

The standard hydrogen electrode (SHE), as shown in Figure 16.3, is considered to be the universally accepted reference electrode. The metal electrode comprises of a small piece of platinum foil with a finely divided platinum, usually termed as platinum black because of its dark look. 

Figure 4.3 The hydrogen electrode. An electrode of platinum foil, covered with platinum black, dips into a solution of hydrochloric acid (1.0 mol l-1). Hydrogen gas at a pressure of 1 atm (101 kPa) is bubbled over the electrode and is absorbed by the platinum black. The half-reaction for the electrode can be represented as ...

Ruthenium was electrochemically deposited on platinum foil at a potential of 50 mV for 10 s. The cyclic voitammogram of this Pt—Ru electrode in 3 M H2SO4 is shown in Fig. 4—2. The voitammogram shows the hydrogen adsorption-desorption features from 50 mV to 200 mV and the oxidation and reduction current over 300 mV. The voltanunogram seemed stable when the upper limit potential was 800 mV. When the upper limit was higher than 800 mV, the voitammogram became slowly like pure... 

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