Wash Powders—Good Quality

Sodium Tripolyphosphate (1) Sodium Hexametaphosphate (2) Sodium Metasilicate (3) Sodium Carbonate Nonionic Surfactant CMC 

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In a 2 litre bolt-head flask, equipped with an efficient mechanical stirrer, place 60-5 g. (50 ml.) of pure nitrobenzene and a solution of 30 g. of ammonium chloride in 1 litre of water. Stir vigorously and add 75 g. of a good quality zinc powder (about 90 per cent, purity) in small portions over a period of 5 minutes. The main reaction occurs about 5 minutes after the addition and the temperature rises. When the temperature reaches about 65°, add enough ice to the weU-stirred mixture to reduce the temperature to 50-55°. Filter the solution through a Buchner funnel twenty minutes after the first portion of zinc powder was introduced wash the zinc oxide residues with 600-700 ml. of boiling water. 

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