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    Limit test is used to identify and quantify small amounts of impurities that may be present in a substance. It involves comparing the opalescence, turbidity, or color produced in a test sample to a standard. Common limit tests check for chloride, sulfate, iron, arsenic, lead, heavy metals, and their amounts are important to determine if they are harmful or unavoidable. The limit test for chloride specifically uses silver nitrate and dilute nitric acid to produce a silver chloride precipitate, and the opacity is compared to a standard to determine if the sample passes the test.

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    Limit test is used to identify and quantify small amounts of impurities that may be present in a substance. It involves comparing the opalescence, turbidity, or color produced in a test sample to a standard. Common limit tests check for chloride, sulfate, iron, arsenic, lead, heavy metals, and their amounts are important to determine if they are harmful or unavoidable. The limit test for chloride specifically uses silver nitrate and dilute nitric acid to produce a silver chloride precipitate, and the opacity is compared to a standard to determine if the sample passes the test.

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    Limit test is used to identify and quantify small amounts of impurities that may be present in a substance. It involves comparing the opalescence, turbidity, or color produced in a test sample to a standard. Common limit tests check for chloride, sulfate, iron, arsenic, lead, heavy metals, and their amounts are important to determine if they are harmful or unavoidable. The limit test for chloride specifically uses silver nitrate and dilute nitric acid to produce a silver chloride precipitate, and the opacity is compared to a standard to determine if the sample passes the test.

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    Limit test is used to identify and quantify small amounts of impurities that may be present in a substance. It involves comparing the opalescence, turbidity, or color produced in a test sample to a standard. Common limit tests check for chloride, sulfate, iron, arsenic, lead, heavy metals, and their amounts are important to determine if they are harmful or unavoidable. The limit test for chloride specifically uses silver nitrate and dilute nitric acid to produce a silver chloride precipitate, and the opacity is compared to a standard to determine if the sample passes the test.

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    LIMIT TEST

    • Limit test is defined as the quantitative or semi-quantitative test designed to


    identify and control small quantities of impurity which is likely to be present
    in the substance.
    IMPORTANCE OF LIMIT TEST
    • To find out the harmful amount of impurities.
    • To find out the avoidable/unavoidable amount of impurities.
    Limit test involves the simple comparisons of opalescence, turbidity or colour
    produced in test with that of standard.
    TYPES OF LIMIT TEST
    • limit test for Chloride,
    • Sulphate,
    • Iron,
    • Arsenic,
    • Lead and
    • Heavy metals,
    • Modified limit test for chloride and sulphate.
    LIMIT TEST FOR CHLORIDE
    • Principle

    This test is mainly used to control chloride impurity in an inorganic substance.


    • Limit test for chloride is based upon the reaction of chloride impurities with silver
    nitrate in the presence of dilute nitric acid.
    • The insoluble silver chloride makes the solution opalescent which is compared with a
    standard opalescence produced in a standard solution containing a known amount of
    chloride.
    • If the opalescence produced in the test is less intense than that of standard
    opalescence, the sample passes the limit test for chloride and vice-versa.
    REAGENTS USED IN LIMIT TEST FOR
    CHLORIDE
    1 Dilute Nitric acid (10 %)
    • Nitric acid is added in the limit test of chloride to make solution acidic and helps
    silver chloride to precipitate and make the solution turbid at the end of process.
    • It also dissolves effect the unwanted impurities like carbonates , sulphates,
    phosphates.
    • It also provides a common ion effect.
    2. Silver nitrate (5%).
    3. Sodium chloride ( 0.05845% w/v solution of NaCl)

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