VI. In each case a nickel concentration of 1.18 p.p.m. was used and an approximately 25 fold excess of the foreign ion was introduced. The recommended procedure was followed.At the concentration level studied only cobalt, copper, silver. and manganese appear to interfere seriously with the determination of nickel. Cobalt forms a complex which has an absorbance maximum a t 475 mp and this curve overlaps the nickel curve sufficiently to cause serious interferences when the recommended procedure is followed and when the cobalt and nickel concentrations are approximately equal. It is possible that by measuring the absorbance a t both 520 and 475 mp, nickel could be satisfactorily determined in the presence of cobalt. Table VI, citrate ion does not seriously interfere with the color reaction and this should be useful for complexing many of the heavy metal ions which would otherwise interfere by forming precipitates under the conditions used. In none of the experiments with cations reported in Table
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