“…Similar methods are adopted when examining plant ash for zinc in the presence of nickel, cobalt, cadmium, lead, copper, and bismuth. 21 Adaptation of the polarograph has been described for the routine analyses of copper together23 in steel, and of aluminium, manganese, zinc, and lead within certain limits of concentration in magnesium alloys. 24 The limitations of the method when applied to the analysis of brasses have been examined,25 and the polarograph has been found satisfactory for the determination of the total alkali metals, after removal of calcium and magnesium, in mineral waters and natural plant ashes where the concentration is of the order of O -O O ~N .…”