“…The literature survey showed that yttrium analysis has been studied very sporadically using spectrophotometer only handful of methods were reported during the last 50 years, number of reagents has been introduced for spectrophotometeric determination of yttrium among them are 2-hydroxy-1-naphtaladehyde-P-8-benzoic hydrazone (HNHBH) (11) , 5,7 diiodoquioline-8-ol and rhodamine 6G, (12) bromopyrogallol red, (13) , arsenazo I, (14) arzenazo (III), (15) molybdoyttric acid and basic dyes, (16) 1amino-4-hydroxyanthra quinon (17) Quinalizarin green, (18) di-2-hydroxybutric acid, (19) chromotrope2R, (20) ammonium purpurate, (21) molbdophosphoric acid (22) . Xylenol orange used as indicator for determination of yttrium and rare earth elements by titration with EDTA (23) , total RRE can be determined by xylenol orange at 600-620 nm using cetylpyridinebromide as a surfactant (24) , spectrophotometric determination of yttrium-xylenol orange-EDTA complex can be extracted the complex into xylene and determined at λ max 604 nm by shaking the solution complex with xylene (25) .…”