Re: Can someone identify this TVB-N method?

From: Enrique Bertullo (ebertullo@redfacil.com.uy)
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 10:19:04 PST

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    Mr. Ko:

    In my opinion, your decription is the Conway method using Conway's chamber; when
    you add the H3BO3 solution in the inner chamber you should close it
    inmediatelly and hermetically with a sealed (i.g. w/vaseline) glass cover.

    The reagents could change but, basically the technique you have described is
    very well known and very usefull in practice.

    Regards,

    EB

    Quoting "Ko, Iwan Setiyono" <isk025@student.uit.no>:

    > Dear all,
    > Can someone comments on this TVB-N method? Is this kinda modification of
    > Conway's microdiffusion method? Or just using the Conway plate?
    >
    > ".... weigh 25 g sample, add 75 ml TCA 75%, and homogenize for 1 minute...
    > take 1ml of the filtrate and put it into the left-outer chamber (plate?).
    > Meanwhile, take 1 ml 2% H3BO3 and add it to the inner chamber, and 1 ml
    > saturated (1:1) K2CO3 to the right-outer chamber... incubate at room
    > temperature overnight or at 35 deg C for 2 hours....titrate with 0.02 N
    > HCl until the boric acid turns from colorless (?) to pink...."
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Ko, Iwan Setiyono (Ko, I.S. - ISK)
    > MSc Candidate - Int. Fisheries Management
    >
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