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Carbon-Isotope Fractionation During Wet Oxidation of Oxalic Acid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

D. C. Grey ,
P. E. Damon ,
C. V. Haynes  and
Austin Long
D. C. Grey
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
P. E. Damon
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
C. V. Haynes
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Austin Long
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution
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The usual procedure for the preparation of carbon dioxide from the oxalic-acid standard supplied by the National Bureau of Standards is wet oxidation by means of potassium permanganate in acid solution. The procedure is straightforward, but suffers from a certain difficulty in determining the end point of the reaction.

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Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 1969 , pp. 1 - 2
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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