Method for Determining Vanadium Content in a Tungsten Matrix with Added Vanadium or Simultaneously Added Chromium and Vanadium

摘要

A method for determining vanadium content in a tungsten matrix with singly added vanadium or simultaneously added chromium and vanadium, characterized in that a test sample is subjected to alkaline melting with sodium peroxide and water leaching followed by dry filtering, the chromium and vanadium in the filtrate are firstly reduced to low valences by a reducing agent, i.e. hydroxylamine hydrochloride, then the filtrate is adjusted to an acidity of 4-6 M with nitric acid, the vanadium is oxidized in a cold state to a high valence by potassium permanganate, and the high-valent vanadium forms a ternary complex with tungstate and orthophosphate, the darkness of the color of the ternary complex is directly proportional to the vanadium content, thus the vanadium content is determined colorimetrically, and the interference of chromium is eliminated with the fact that the potassium permanganate in a cold state in the acidic condition for vanadium determination oxidizes the vanadium but not the chromium. The method of the invention is relatively suitable for determining the macro-amount vanadium content in a tungsten matrix containing macro-amount vanadium singly or containing macro-amount vanadium and chromium simultaneously, the method is fast and accurate with a relative error less than 5%, which can fully satisfy the requirements of the production process for the determination.