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either the copper (CuS04) or the ascorbic acid was added from
the side arm to the contents of the respirometer flasks after equi-
libration and closing the taps.
Typical results obtained with metaphosphoric acid are illus-
trated in Fig. 1. When they are compared with the results in
Fig. 2, it is evident that the inhibitory action of metaphosphoric
acid depends upon a lowering of the pH of the solution and, in
Ascorbic Acid Oxidation
H2S gave complete recovery of the ascorbic acid. Hence the ex-
cess oxygen uptake observed in experiments carried out below
pH 4.5 is undoubtedly due to formation of HzOz.
Molybdic acid has been used by Stern (11) to speed up the
decomposition of HzOz. Attempts to use this as a means of ar-
riving at the theoretical oxygen uptake failed, however, because
solutions of ascorbic acid containing molybdic acid turn blue,
owing to reduction of the latter by ascorbic acid.
In buffered solutions of pH 4.5 the oxidation of ascorbic acid
in the presence of copper proceeds rapidly until an oxygen uptake
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