“…Di‐sodium ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid (a.k.a Na 2 ‐EDTA), used in the previously reported work (Mondal and Saha, 2018), does not have electrolytic property. Hence, four types of strip phase solutions such as H 2 SO 4 (Reddy et al , 2006; Chaudry et al , 2007), NH 4 Cl (Lee et al , 2010; Peng and Tsai, 2014), NaCl (Choi and Moon, 2005; Peng and Tsai 2014) and NaOH (Huang et al , 1998; Venkateswaran and Palanivelu, 2005; Chiha et al , 2006; Goyal et al , 2011; Kumar et al , 2019) have been tried to find the better one suited for our purpose. The concentration of strip solution in each case was maintained at 0.1 M. The reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) and subsequent precipitation as chromium‐iron hydroxide were possible in case of NH4Cl and NaCl with 14.53 and 21.17% efficiency respectively.…”