An examination of some methods employed in determining the atomic weight of CadmiumBucher, John Emery
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An examination of some methods employed in determining the atomic weight of Cadmium
Bucher, John Emery
Cadmium; Thesis (Ph. D.)
As the chloride and bromide methods and the synthesis of cadmium
sulphate all lead to approximately the same high result, it seemed
probable that the oxide method which had given a much lower result
(Morse & Jones 112.07) must be affected by some error. Accordingly it
was examined in the manner about to be described. A set of crucibles was
prepared as described by Morse and Jones in their work on this method,
and in the present paper under the oxalate method. After they had been
heated in a nickel crucible over a blast lamp and weighed, a weighed
piece of cadmium was introduced into the smaller inside crucible, and
dissolved in nitric acid with the aid of heat. An equal quantity of
nitric acid was added to the tare. The acid was then evaporated off, and
the resulting nitrate converted into oxide exactly as has already been
described under the oxalate. The first experiment was made in this way
and the second one exactly like it, only the porcelain crucible used was
the one which had been employed in the first determination. The glaze
had been removed by the cadmium oxide of the first determination, and
before using for the second one the crucible was boiled out with nitric
acid, and heated to constant weight over a blast lamp as before.
Determinations III, IV and V were made in the same way except that the
small inner crucible was platinum instead of porcelain. All weighings
were reduced to the vacuum standard on the basis of 8.54 for the Sp. Gr.
of cadmium and 8.15 for the Sp. Gr of cadmium oxide and 8.4 for the
brass and 21 for the platinum weights.
The results are as follows:
Cd CdO At. Wt. Cd.
I. 1.26142 1.44144 112.11
II. .99785 1.14035 112.04
——————
Average 112.08
III. 1.11321 1.27247 111.84
IV. 1.02412 1.17054 111.91
V. 2.80966 3.21152 111.87
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Average 111.87
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