Blowpipe analysis

Japanese: 吹管分析 - すいかんぶんせき(英語表記)blowpipe analysis
Blowpipe analysis

Dry qualitative analysis using a blowpipe. A blowpipe is a metal tube that is blown into by placing one end of the tube with the mouth and blowing air from the other end into the flame, causing the flame to fall sideways and become elongated, hitting the sample packed in the hole on the charcoal. This allows observation of phenomena such as color changes in the ignited sample, gas generation, and melting. The metals in the sample can also be identified by the color and shape of the metal oxides that sublimate onto the charcoal. The flame can be freely changed; for example, an oxidizing flame is obtained by placing the tip of the tube in the flame and blowing, and a reducing flame is obtained by placing the tube outside the flame. It was often used as a simple method to detect the metal components of minerals, but it is one of the classical analytical methods that is rarely used nowadays.

[Takada Takeo]

Oxidizing and reducing flames
©Shogakukan ">

Oxidizing and reducing flames


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

吹管を用いて行う乾式定性分析。吹管は金属性の管で、一端に口を当てて吹き、他端から吹き出た空気を炎に吹き付けると、炎は横に倒れて細長い形となって木炭上の穴に詰めた試料に当たる。これによって強熱された試料の色調の変化、気体の発生、融解などの現象を観察する。また木炭上に昇華する金属酸化物の色や形状によって試料中の金属を判別する。管の先端を炎の中に入れて吹けば酸化炎を、外に置いて吹けば還元炎というように炎を自由に使い分けることができる。鉱物の金属成分を検出する簡易な方法として使われることが多かったが、現在ではほとんど行われていない古典的分析法の一つである。

[高田健夫]

酸化炎と還元炎
©Shogakukan">

酸化炎と還元炎


出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Zuiki (potato stem) - Zuiki

>>:  Zuiganji Temple

Recommend

Camerini, M.

...In 1925, the public film corporation Luce was ...

Sholapur

A city in the southern tip of Maharashtra state in...

Packing tape

Gum tape is a wide adhesive tape used to seal card...

Purple (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)

A perennial plant of the family Violaceae, distrib...

sexual abuse

...Generally it refers to committing adultery wit...

Stock split - Kabushiki no Bunkatsu

In addition, because shareholders must be guarant...

Caberin, KD - Caberin

...For this reason, their opponents, the Slavophi...

Arabian Knotted Work

…A type of knotted lace, also known as macrame la...

Linschoten-Vereniging (English spelling) LinschotenVereniging

…He himself participated in two such voyages, but...

documents against acceptance

...These terms were created depending on whether ...

Gene duplication - Idenshichofuku

The phenomenon in which a sequence containing a ge...

Isfahan - Isfahan (English spelling)

The capital of Isfahan Province in central Iran. ...

Grotteschi

…Originally a type of decorative pattern from cla...

Andean water frogs - Andean water frogs

...Their lungs are large, and aquatic species, in...

Ipiranga - Ipiranga

...But for three centuries until the mid-19th cen...