1 | Appearance/Description | Clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at 118°C. Specific gravity 1.049 | Crystalline mass or clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at about 118°C. Specific gravity about 1.05 |
2 | Solubility | Complies | Miscible with water, with ethanol (96%), with methylene chloride and with glycerin. |
3 | Identification A (By Chemical test) | Complies | A 100 g/L solution is strongly acid |
4 | Identification B (Acetates) | Complies | A blue precipitate should form or a dark blue color should develop |
5 | Appearance | Complies | The substance to be examined should be clear and colourless |
6 | Reducing substances | Complies | The color of solution should remain pink. |
7 | Readily oxidizable substances | Complies | The pink color should not change to brown within 2 hours. |
8 | Chloride (Cl) | Less than 25 mg/L | NMT 25 mg/L |
9 | Sulphate (SO4) | Less than 50 mg/L | NMT 50 mg/L |
10 | Iron (Fe) | Less than 5 ppm | NMT 5 ppm |
11 | Assay | 99.8% | 99.5% to 100.5% m/m |
12 | Limit of Nonvolatile residue /Residue on evaporation | 0.0015% | NMT 0.005% |
13 | Congealing temperature | 16.0°C | NLT 15.6°C |