Date of Award

5-1935

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Herbert Heinrich

Abstract

For many years the analytical chemist avoided by design or more probably by accident the general use of organic chemicals in his work. Some few of them he accepted as a matter of course, and perhaps without much thought of their organic nature. In qualitative analysis he used chloroform as a solvent in testing for bromine and iodine. A few indicators were in common use, but organic chemicals were used but little in analytical work. It was not until the twentieth century that their use in analytical procedures received any worthwhile attention. Since then they have rapidly come to the front, and are continuing to do so.

One such reagent is curcumin, which is used in testing for the presence of beryllium. Because of the increasing use of beryllium as an alloy constituent, it has become one of the important light metals; and its detection has become equally as important. Although this reaction was picked more or less at random from among a good many such reactions, the vastness of the work was soon realized, as will be shown in the following pages.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science

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