tion to a ground-glass stoppered bottle of soft glass (boron-free glassware is preferable, if available).After one hour, the solution may be compared visually to a series of sealed standards which can remain stable indefinitely. The photoelectric colorimeter may be employed as an alternate means of estimation. The instrument is adjusted to zero with concentrated sulfuric acid in the cell and readings are taken on all solutions, including a blank determination on boron-free steel which is run simultaneously. A No. 60 filter is used. The blank reading obtained is subtracted from the sample reading. The per cent of boron is then determined by referring to a curve previously drawn from a series of standards of increasing boron content.The standards are prepared from samples of boron-free steel, to which increments of standard boric acid solution equivalent to 0.001% boron are added. (Steel samples must be used in preparing the standards, as there is a proportionate retention of boron in the hydroxide precipitate.) A blank is carried along and deducted in the usual xvay.