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The determination of fluoroacetic acid and fluoroacetamide in plant material
Author(s) -
Thompson C. C.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740100707
Subject(s) - fluorine , chemistry , biological materials , chromatography , environmental chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , biological system
An analytical method is described for the determination of total organically combined fluorine in a mixture of fluoroacetamide and fluoroacetic acid in plant material; a method is also suggested for the determination of fluoroacetamide alone. On a 100‐g. sample of plant material 1 p.p.m. can be determined with an accuracy of 13% and 0.1 p.p.m. with an accuracy of 50%. The methods involve the determination of the fluorine content of plant extracts and therefore depend for their validity on the removal of interfering fluorine‐containing plant constituents.