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| Specifications | |
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| Appearance/Description: | White crystalline powder or colorless crystals or scales, or needles |
| Solubility: | Slightly soluble in water, soluble in boiling water, freely soluble in ethanol (96%) chloroform, ether and in fatty oils. |
| Identification(By Melting point): | 121°C to 124°C |
| Identification (Benzoates): | A dull-yellow precipitate, soluble in ether should form. |
| Identification (By chemical test 1): | A salmon-colored precipitate should form |
| Identification (By chemical test 2): | A white precipitate should form in 10 min, soluble in ether. |
| Appearance of Solution: | Clear and colorless solution. |
| Carbonisable substances/Readily carbonizable substances: | The solution is not more intensely colored than reference solution Y5 or matching fluid Q. |
| Oxidisable substances: | The solution is still colored pink. |
| Readily oxidizable substances: | NMT 0.50ml of 0.10N Potassium permanganate should consume |
| Halogenated compounds and halides: | NMT 300ppm |
| Sulphated ash / Residue on ignition: | NMT 0.05% |
| Assay: | 99.0% - 100.5% |
| Assay (anhydrous basis): | 99.5% - 100.5% |
| Congealing temperature: | 121°C - 123°C |
| Water: | NMT 0.7% |
| Total aerobic bacterial count: | NMT 100 CFU/gm |
| Total combined yeast and molds count: | NMT 10 CFU/gm |
| Bacterial endotoxins: | NMT 10 EU/gm |
