Student Reference Standards & Reagent Chemicals

Educators agree that students need measuring sticks to calibrate their equipment and volumetric standards. U.S. Bureau of Standards reference standards are excellent but very expensive. Some commercial standards are satisfactory, but others are not. To give students reference standards of accuracy matching that of unknowns, Thorn Smith produces Student Reference Standards. Side-by-side analysis of these standards with Thorn Smith unknowns gives agreement of a few parts per ten thousand for many materials. Matching these accuracies provides a real challenge to even your best students.

NOTE: Materials marked (Highly Toxic) will be shipped in Poison Packs at extra charge.

Catalog # Material (MSDS info)   Price

81-1010 Arsenious acid - for standardizing iodine
Highly toxic; shipped in Poison Packs*
  100 gram: $12.30       500 gram: $48.50

81-1020 Calcium carbonate - for standardizing EDTA solution   100 gram: $12.10       500 gram: $47.00

81-1035 Ferrous ammonium sulfate - for standardizing dichromate or permanganate solution   100 gram: $12.35       500 gram: $48.25

81-1045 Potassium biphthalate - for standardizing sodium hydroxide solution   100 gram: $15.75       500 gram: $57.75

81-1055 Potassium dichromate - for standardizing thiosulfate solution
Shipped in Poison Packs*
  100 gram: $11.25       500 gram: $43.60

81-1060 Silver nitrate ACS grade
Shipped in Poison Packs*
Note: Prices may vary due to silver market and may vary due to change in poison packaging charges. Phone for quotations.
  100 gram: $350.00       500 gram: $825.00

81-1075 Sodium carbonate - for standardizing acid solution
  100 gram: $10.45       500 gram: $40.45

81-1085 Sodium chloride - for standardizing silver nitrate solution
  100 gram: $9.90       500 gram: $38.45

81-1090 Sodium oxalate - for standardizing permanganate solution   100 gram: $12.30       500 gram: $48.85

* Shipped in Poison Packs at extra charge

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