Re: Determining the Amount of Salt in Food?
- From: schultr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Schultz)
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:54:11 +0000 (UTC)
In article <45F809C2.6A6C5687@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Uncle Al <UncleAl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: "W. Watson" wrote:
:> I would like to determine the amount of salt in a particular sample, say, 4
:> oz., of mixed nuts and similar foods from the dry bins in a local grocery
:> store. Is there some simple way to do this?
: There is no accessible wet chemical route to determine sodium.
If you think that the counterions for the chloride include a significant
amount of something other than Na+, you can test for it (e.g. titrate with
cobaltinitrite for K+) and calculate Na+ by difference. That's assuming that
the only salts present in the sample are chlorides.
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Richard Schultz schultr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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