1 | Appearance/Description | Colorless crystalline powder, slightly deliquescent in moist air. | Colorless crystals or white, crystalline powder/ granular crystals, slightly deliquescent in moist air. |
2 | Solubility | Complies | Freely soluble in water & very soluble in boiling water. Insoluble in alcohol & Practically insoluble in ethanol (96%) |
3 | Identification (Citrate) | Complies | Solution should produce violet colour turning to violet blue |
4 | Identification (Citrate ) | Complies | A light red color should produce |
5 | Identification(Sodium) | Complies | A dense white precipitate should form. |
6 | Identification (reaction upon ignition) | Complies | Upon ignition, it should yield an alkaline residue that effervesces when treated with 3N hydrochloric acid |
7 | Appearance of Solution | Complies | Clear and colourless solution |
8 | Acidity or alkalinity | Complies | Not more than 0.2ml of 0.1M sodium hydroxide is required to change the colour of the indicator. |
9 | Alkalinity | Complies | No pink colour is produced by 1 drop of phenolphthalein. |
10 | Readily carbonizable substances | Complies | The solution is not more intensely coloured than reference solution Y2 or GY2. |
11 | Chlorides | Less than 50ppm | 50ppm max |
12 | Oxalate | Less than 300ppm | 300ppm max |
13 | Sulphate (SO4) | Less than 150ppm | 150ppm max |
14 | Water (By KF) | 11.7% | 11.0%-13.0% |
15 | Water (At 180°C for 18h) | 11.8% | 10.0% -13.0% |
16 | Assay (Anhydrous basis) | 100.2% | 99.0%-101.0% |
17 | Assay (on Anhydrous basis) | 100.0% | 99.0%- 100.5% |
18 | Tartrates | Complies | No crystalline precipitate is formed. |