摘要:Spectrophotometric measurement of mercury (II) complex formed with potassium iodide in alkaline medium provides a convenient method for the determination of mercury (II). Although cyanide, cysteine, and egg albumin interfere with this analysis, malonate, glycine and nitrate, and taratrate are anions which interfere at a molar ratio of anion to mercury (II) of 1000 : 1 and 100 : 1, respectively. Though several cations have absorption bands in the ultraviolet region to form a complex with potassium iodide in neutral aqueous medium, the bands of their complex disappear in alkaline medium. Mercury (II) can thus be determined with considerable accuracy by this method in the presence of some cations, such as copper (II), palladium (II), bismuth (III), and platinum (IV), which are known to interfere in its determination by ordinary dithizone method. This method gives as a good result for mercury (II) determination as the usual dithizone method after decomposition of organic mercury (II) compounds by Schoniger's method.