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    This document provides a method for quantitatively titrating borax in dextrin and starch products. The method involves heating a sample with water, titrating with sulfuric acid to a methyl orange endpoint, then titrating with sodium hydroxide to a phenolphthalein endpoint in the presence of mannitol or glycerol to prevent hydrolysis of sodium borate. The difference between the two titrations is used to calculate the percentage of borax in the sample.

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    This document provides a method for quantitatively titrating borax in dextrin and starch products. The method involves heating a sample with water, titrating with sulfuric acid to a methyl orange endpoint, then titrating with sodium hydroxide to a phenolphthalein endpoint in the presence of mannitol or glycerol to prevent hydrolysis of sodium borate. The difference between the two titrations is used to calculate the percentage of borax in the sample.

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    This document provides a method for quantitatively titrating borax in dextrin and starch products. The method involves heating a sample with water, titrating with sulfuric acid to a methyl orange endpoint, then titrating with sodium hydroxide to a phenolphthalein endpoint in the presence of mannitol or glycerol to prevent hydrolysis of sodium borate. The difference between the two titrations is used to calculate the percentage of borax in the sample.

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    1

    BORAX.01-

    BORAX

    PRINCIPLE

    Boric acid reacts neutral to methyl orange, but is acid to phenolphthalein. It can be
    quantitatively titrated in the presence of polyhydroxy compounds, such as mannitol
    or glycerol, which prevent the hydrolysis of sodium borate. The alkali present is
    neutralized first in the presence of methyl orange and the liberated boric acid is
    titrated with sodium hydroxide using phenolphthalein indicator.

    SCOPE

    This method is applicable to all dextrin (Note 1) and starch products.

    REAGENTS

    1. Mannitol, Reagent Grade

    2. Methyl Orange Indicator

    3. Phenolphthalein Indicator

    4. Sodium Hydroxide Solution, 0.1 N: Standard

    5. Sulfuric Acid Solution, 0.1 N: Standard

    PROCEDURE

    Weigh accurately about 1 g of sample and transfer quantitatively to a 250 mL


    beaker. Add 100 mL of purified water to the sample and heat on a steam bath to
    90 °C while stirring continuously. Remove from steam bath and titrate while hot
    with 0.1 N sulfuric acid solution to an orange-red end point using methyl orange
    indicator.

    Add phenolphthalein indicator and titrate with 0.1 N sodium hydroxide solution to
    a pink end point. Add about 1 g of mannitol to the solution (Note 2). If the pink
    color disappears, continue the titration until the pink color reappears. Again add
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    BORAX  continued

    about 1 g of mannitol and titrate to a pink end point. Continue this process until
    the addition of mannitol does not change the pink color of the solution (Note 3).

    Run a blank determination using a sample of dextrin known to contain no borax.


    CALCULATION
    (mL 0.1 N NaOH - Blanks)(0.00955)(100)
    % Borax (as is) =
    (Wt. of Sample, g)
    NOTES AND PRECAUTIONS
    1. Dextrins are modified starches prepared from starch by heat treatment in the
    dry state with or without the addition of small quantities of reagents.
    2. Mannitol may be replaced with 10 mL of glycerol neutralized previously
    with sodium hydroxide to a phenolphthalein end point.

    2. If preferred, the sample solution may be titrated electrometrically. In this


    case, a pH of 3.8 is substituted for the methyl orange end point and a pH of
    8.3 for the phenolphthalein end point.

    METHOD HISTORY

    Dextrins, Borax (D-10), Date of Acceptance 11-12-71, Revised 3-01-1995.

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