sodium thiosulphate

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sodium thiosulphate

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(Elements & Compounds) a white soluble substance used, in the pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula: Na2S2O3. Also called (not in technical usage): sodium hyposulphite or hypo
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Noun1.sodium thiosulphate - a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developingsodium thiosulphate - a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing
fixing agent, fixer - a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
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The polymerization reaction was carried out according to a radical mechanism, where potassium persulphate (KPS) and sodium thiosulphate (NTS) were the redox initiators and N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (NNMBA) was the cross-linking monomer.
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A Cancer Research UK funded clinical trial has indicated that administering sodium thiosulphate after chemotherapy 'cisplatin' intended for the treatment of childhood liver cancer hepatoblastoma, decreases hearing loss in children by around 50%, it was reported yesterday.
Liberated iodine from sample mixture was then titrated with 0.1 N standard sodium thiosulphate solution until the blue color disappears at end point.
Thereafter, 30 ml of distilled water was added and the solution was titrated against 0.1 M sodium thiosulphate solution until the yellow colour had almost disappeared.
Then 100 mL of stock iodine solution (2.7 g of iodine and 4.1 g of KI in IL of deionized water) which was standardized using a standard solution of sodium thiosulphate (0.1 M) was added to it and the mixture was shaken for a period of 20 mins.
n-hexane and methanol were purchased from LAB-SCAN Analytical sciences (Dublin, Ireland), sodium and potassium hydroxides, sodium thiosulphate and anhydrous magnesium sulphate were procured from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany) while glyceryl tripalmitate, glyceryl tristearate, glyceryl trioleate and glyceryl trilaurate (all E 99%) were purchased from Fluka (Steinheim, Germany).
[11] experimented the solar thermal energy storage with sodium thiosulphate pentahydrate as the phase change material which resulted in the accumulation of total heat and production of hot water up to 2.59-3.45 times than a normal conventional solar water heating system.
Intravenous sodium thiosulphate, an antioxidant is increasingly being used as treatment of choice for calcific uraemic arteriopathy.4
After the addition of distilled water 12.5 mL the mixture was titrated against sodium thiosulphate of 0.02M using starch as an indicator.
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