Sodium pyrosulfate is an
inorganic compound
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with the
chemical formula
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of Na
2S
2O
7.
It is a colorless salt.
Preparation
Sodium pyrosulfate is obtained by the
dehydration
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of
sodium bisulfate:
: 2 NaHSO
4 → Na
2S
2O
7 + H
2O
Temperatures above 460 °C further
decompose
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the compound, producing
sodium sulfate
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and
sulfur trioxide:
: Na
2S
2O
7 → Na
2SO
4 + SO
3
Applications
Sodium pyrosulfate was used in
analytical chemistry
Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to separate, identify, and quantify matter. In practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute the entire analysis or be combined with another method. Separati ...
. Samples are
fused with sodium pyrosulfate to ensure complete dissolution before a
quantitative analysis
Quantitative analysis may refer to:
* Quantitative research, application of mathematics and statistics in economics and marketing
* Quantitative analysis (chemistry), the determination of the absolute or relative abundance of one or more substanc ...
.
See also
*
Pyrosulfate
In chemistry, disulfate or pyrosulfate is the anion with the molecular formula . Disulfate is the IUPAC name.
It has a dichromate-like structure and can be visualised as two corner-sharing SO4 tetrahedra, with a bridging oxygen atom.
In this a ...
*
Potassium bisulfate
*
Potassium pyrosulfate
References
{{Sodium compounds
Sodium compounds
Pyrosulfates