The determination of vanadium in steel

The Mercury Cathode and its Applications.

“…Beakers of 150-1000 ml. capacity, containing as much as 200 g. of mercury, were used (2, 20,35,38,105,108,128,162) and batteries of them have been installed in some laboratories (74,121). The electrolyte is agitated either by rotation of the anode or by use of separate stirrers.…”

“…The widest practical application of the mercury cathode, insofar as one can judge from the literature, is in the field of alloys, both ferrous and nonferrous. The mercury cathode has been applied to the determination of vanadium in plain carbon (24,38), chrome-vanadium (22, 104), and other alloy steels (2, 24, 96); of aluminum in plain carbon (11,24,37,138,160) and in chromium (74,128), nickel (27), and other alloy steels (20, 169), and of boron in plain carbon steel (24, 39, 75,105) and in other alloys containing boron (162). Beryllium has been determined in plain carbon (24) and nickel alloy steels (24, 27), as has also magnesium (27, 86a), cerium (24), titanium and zirconium (74; 110a), and sulfur (105) after removal of interfering elements by the mercury cathode.…”