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Ref. No. [UMCES] CBL 2016-012
ACT VS16-03
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Thiosulfate Standardization
The Thiosulfate was standardized at room temperature as the first and last step in daily
analysis. Either triplicate assays of a fixed volume of iodate standard was run, or a range of
volumes
(≥ 3) bracketing the normal sample titration range (e.g. 0.500, 1.000, 1.500, 2.000 mL for well
oxygenated waters.) A clean BOD bottle and clean glassware were dedicated to this purpose.
(1)
Insert a stirring bar into a 200 mL beaker.
(2) With mixing add 1.0 mL of the H
2
SO
4
reagent followed by 1.0 mL of the alkaline iodide and
then 1.0 mL Mn
2+
reagent.
(3) Using a gravimetrically calibrated pipet add a suitable volume of the KIO
3
standard to the
stirring solution
(4) Insert the electrode and delivery tube and immediately begin titration
(5) The normality of the thiosulfate is calculated from the equivalence point volume as Vol
KIO3
/
Vol
Thio
)* N KIO
3
using replicates of single KIO
3
volume additions or from the slope of a range of
KIO
3
addition volumes.
Blank determination
Reagent blanks were determined as follows:
(1) A volume of 1-2 L of site water was brought to a boil in a clean glass reagent bottle.
(2) Boiled, degassed water was cooled and poured into 125 ml sample flasks and sparged with N
2
for no less than 30 minutes.
(3) The sample was then rapidly fixed as a normal sample, and on the auto titrator.
(4) A global reagent blank taken as the mean of samples fixed at each test site (0.078 ± 0.020, n=5)
and used to correct all reference values.
RESULTS of LABORATORY TESTING
Instrument accuracy for the SBS HydroCAT was tested under nine combinations of
temperature and salinity over a range of DO concentrations from 10% to 120% of saturation.
Specific test conditions are summarized in Table 1. Results are plotted as a time series of
instrument readings against the time series of comparative Winkler reference samples (Figures A-
I). The bottom panel of each figure shows the time series of the difference in instrument
measurement versus corresponding reference sample (denoted as Delta’s).