Titanium Dioxide

TiO2 Mol. Wt. 79.88

titanium dioxide 13463-67-7
Content Titanium Dioxide, when dried, contains not less than 99.0% of titanium
dioxide (TiO2).
Description Titanium Dioxide occurs as a white powder. It is odorless and
tasteless.
Identification To 0.5 g of Titanium Dioxide, add 5 ml of sulfuric acid, and heat
gently until fumes of sulfuric acid are evolved. After cooling, add water gradually to
make about 100 ml, filter, and add hydrogen peroxide TS to 5 ml of the filtrate. A
yellow-red to orange-red color develops.
Purity (1) Water-soluble substances Not more than 0.25%.
Weigh 4.0 g of Titanium Dioxide, add 50 ml of water, shake, and allow to stand
overnight. Add 2 ml of ammonium chloride solution (1 10), and shake. If a
precipitate of titanium dioxide is not formed, add another 2 ml of ammonium chloride
solution (1 10), and allow to stand. After the precipitate is formed, add water to
make 200 ml, and filter while shaking. Discard 10 ml of the initial filtrate, transfer 100
ml of the subsequent filtrate into a platinum crucible previously weighed, evaporate to
dryness, ignite to constant weight, and weigh the residue.
(2) Hydrochloric acid-soluble substances Not more than 0.50%.
Weigh 5.0 g of Titanium Dioxide, add 100 ml of diluted hydrochloric acid (1 20),
shake, heat on a water bath for 30 minutes while stirring occasionally, and filter. Wash
the residue three times with 10 ml of diluted hydrochloric acid (1 20) each time,
combine the filtrate and the washings, evaporate to dryness, ignite to constant weight,
and weigh the residue.
(3) Heavy metals Not more than 10 g/g as Pb.
Sample Solution Weigh 10.0 g of Titanium Dioxide, transfer into a 250-ml beaker,
and add 50 ml of diluted hydrochloric acid (1 20). Cover with a watch glass, heat to
boiling, then continue boiling gently for 15 minutes, and centrifuge to precipitate the
insoluble residue. Filter the supernatant, wash the beaker used and the residue three
times with 10 ml of boiling water each time, and filter through the same filter paper.
Wash the filter paper with 10 to 15 ml of boiling water, combine the filtrate and the
washings, cool, and add water to make 100 ml.
Test Solution Measure 20 ml of the sample solution, add one drop of
phenolphthalein TS, add dropwise ammonia TS until the color of the solution changes
to a slightly pink color, and then add 2 ml of diluted acetic acid (120) and water to
make 50 ml.
Control Solution Measure exactly 2 ml of Lead Standard Solution, add 2 ml of
diluted acetic acid (1 20) and water to make 50 ml.
(4) Arsenic Not more than 1.3 g/g as As2O3.
Test Solution Measure 15 ml of the sample solution prepared under test (3)
above.
Apparatus Apparatus B.
Loss on Drying Not more than 0.50% (105, 3 hours).
Loss on Ignition Not more than 0.50% (dried substance, 775825).
Assay Weigh accurately about 0.15 g of Titanium Dioxide, previously dried,
transfer to a 500-ml Erlenmeyer flask, add 5 ml of water, and shake well until
homogeneous milky solution is obtained. Add 30 ml of sulfuric acid and 12 g of
ammonium sulfate, heat gently at first and then heat strongly to dissolve the sample
completely. After cooling, add 120 ml of water and 40 ml of hydrochloric acid, shake
well, and add 3 g of aluminum metal bar or wire. Insert immediately one end of a
U-tube with a rubber stopper into this solution and the other end in a wide-mouthed
bottle containing a saturated solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate, and generate
hydrogen. After the aluminum metal dissolves completely to produce a transparent
purple solution, allow to stand for several minutes, cool to below 50 in running
water, and remove the U-tube with rubber stopper. Add 3 ml of a saturated potassium
thiocyanate solution as indicator, and titrate immediately with 0.1 mol/l ferric
ammonium sulfate solution until a faint brown color persists for about 30 seconds.
Content of titanium dioxide (TiO2)
= 0.007988 volume of 0.1mol/l ferrous ammonium sulfate (ml)
100 (%)
Weight (g) of the sample