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WET CHEMISTRY
  • Comprehensive offering of wet chemistry method.
  • State of the art automated instrumentation conducive to accurate, rapid, and error free results.
  • Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
  • Excellent analyte sensitivity, with reporting limits at or below drinking water & effluent RLs for clean matrices.
  • Drinking water, fresh & marine surface & ground water, effluent, storm water run off, waste water, soils, sludge, solids, petroleum liquids, plant & animal tissue, food, wine and other matrices can be tested.
List Of Environmental Wet Chemistry Tests Available From MAI
Compound US EPA Method Alternative Method
Acidity 305.1 SM2310 B
AGPmax, AGP, Acid Generating Potential 600/2-78-054
ANP, Acid Neutralizing Potential 600/2-78-054
Alkalinity, total 310.1 SM2320 B
Alkalinity, speciated 310.1 SM2320 B
Ammonia as N 350.1, 350.3 SM4500-NH3 FG, SM4500NH3 D
Ammonia, unionized cal. from total ammonia, pH & temp. SM8010 F
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD / cBOD) 405.1 SM5210 B
Bottom Sediments and Water (B S & W) --- ASTM D 1796-97
Carbon, DOC, IC, POC, TC, TOC 415.3, 9060A SM5310 B
Carbon Dioxide, air or free CO2aq 415.3, + pH + SM4500-CO2 D SM5310 B or SM2320 B, + pH + SM4500-CO2 D
Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) & Exchangeable / Available Cations & Metals --- SSSA
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) See COD
Chloride (potentiometric) --- SM4500-Cl‾ D
Chlorine, residual, specific form (incl. CIO2) 330.2 SM4500-Cl DE
Chlorine Dioxide --- SM4500-CIO 2 C
Chlorophyll a & b --- SM10200 H
Chromium VI See Hexachrome
COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) 410.4 SM5220 D / E / Walkley-Black modified
Color, Apparent 110.2 SM2120 B
Color, % Transmission --- SM5910 Bm / City of Mt. View
Conductivity 120.1, 9050A SM2510, CA Test 424m
Corrosivity, Hazardous Waste Classification See RCI
Corrosivity, Towards Structural Elements See Resistivity
Corrosivity, Towards Steel 110A
Cyanide, Amenable 335.1, 9012B / Kelada-01, 335.4 SM4500-CN‾ G
Cyanide, total 335.2, 335.3/ Kelada-01, 335.4; 9010C & 9012B SM4500-CN‾ ABCE
Cyanide, total solid 9010C & 9012B SM4500-CN‾ ABCN
Cyanide, extractable solid 9013-9010C & 9014 / 9012B ---
Cyanide, soluble --- SM4500-CN‾ ABCE
Cyanide, WAD, solids --- SM4500-CN‾ ABCE
Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) See Carbon, DOC
Dissolved Oxygen 360.1 SM4500-O G
Ferrous Iron --- SM 3500-Fe B4c
Flash Point 1010 ---
Foaming Agents, Dissolved Anionic / MBAS Surfactants 425.1 SM5540 C
Foaming Agents, Dissolved Cationic / PBAS Surfactants --- MAI
Foaming Agents, Dissolved Non-ionic / CTAS Surfactants --- SM5540 BD
Free Fatty Acids AOAC 940.28
General Mineral Alkalinity (speciated), Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Cl‾, SO4‾², EC, pH, tdS
General Physical color, Odor, Turbidity
Hardness 200.7 & SM2340B 200.7 & SM2340 B
Hexachrome 7196A SM3500Cr B
Hydrogen Peroxide --- MAI - colorimetric
Ignitability 1010 ---
Inorganic Carbon See Carbon, IC
Karl Fischer Water 9000 ---
Langlier Index / SI / Aggressivity Index --- SM2330 B
Lignin See Tannin & Lignin
MBAS (Foaming Agents /Anionic Surfactants) See Foaming Agents
Moisture --- ASTM D2216-92
Nitrogen, Ammonia 350.1, 350.2, 350.3 SM4500-NH3 BDFG
Nitrogen, Ammonia, unionized calc, from ammonia, total & pH
Nitrogen, Nitrate + Nitrite 353.2 SM4500-NO3‾ F
Nitrogen, Nitrite 353.2 SM4500-NO3‾ F
Nitrogen, Organic 351.2 + 350.1 SM4500-Norg AD + 4500- NH3 FG
Nitrogen, TKN 351.2 SM4500-Norg AD
Nitrogen, total 415.1m by combustion ---
Nitrogen, total 351.2 + 353.2 / 300.1 (TKN + NO3‾ + NO2‾) SM4500-Norg BD + SM4500-NO3‾ F
Nitrogen, Total, by modified TKN 351.2m SM4500-Norg BDm / SSSA #5-3 chpt. 37
Nitrogen, total --- SM4500-N BC (UV / Persulfate oxidation)
Odor 140.1 SM2150B
ORP (Oxidation-Reduction Potential) --- SM2580 B
Ozone --- SM4500-O3 B
Paint Filter Test 9095B ---
pH 150.1, 9045D SM4500H+ B / CTM 643
Phenolics, Total 420.1, 420.2, 420.4 SM5530 BCD
Phosphorous, dissolved 365.1, 365.3, 365.4 SM4500-P BEF
Phosphorous, hydrolyzable 365.1, 365.3, 365.4 SM4500-P BEF
Phosphorous, organic 365.1, 365.3, 365.4 SM4500-P BEF
Phosphorous, ortho 365.1, 365.3, 365.4 SM4500-P BEF
Phosphorous, total 365.1, 365.3, 365.4 SM4500-P BEFH; AOAC; SSSA
Phosphorous, total --- SM4500-P I
Physical Properties of Soil    
   Air-filled void space --- API 40RP
   Bulk Density --- SSSA #5
   FOC / TOC 415.1 SM5310 B
   Moisture --- SSSA #5
   Porosity --- SSSA #5
Purgable Organic Carbon, POC See Carbon, POC
RCI: Reactive, Corrosivity, & Ignitability SW-846, Chapter 7 ---
Resistivity, soil (includes pH, CI‾ & SO4‾² --- CTM 643
Salinity --- SSSA
Saturated Extraction (Saturated paste or 1g:2ml DI) --- SSSA
Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR, SARe) --- SSSA
SI See Langlier Index
Silica, Reactive --- SM4500-SiO2 D
Specific Gravity --- ASTM, MAI
Sulfide, aqueous 376.2, 9034 SM4500-S‾² DFI
Sulfide, solids: acid soluble or acid insoluble 9030B & 9034 / 376.2 SM4500-S‾² D
Sulfide, extractable 9030B-9031 & 9034 / 376.2 SM4500-S‾² D
Sulfite by titration --- SM4500-SO3‾² B
Sulfite by IC 300.0 MAI
Sulfur, total 415.1m ---
Surfactants, anionic See Foaming Agents, anionic
Surfactants, cationic See Foaming Agents, cationic
Surfactants, non-ionic See Foaming Agents, non-ionic
Suspended Matter 160.5 SM2540 F
Tannin & Lignin --- SM5550 B
TDS See Total Dissolved Solids
TKN as N (Total Kjeldahal Nitrogen) See Nitrogen, TKN
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) 160.1 SM2540 C
Total Nitrogen (TN) See Nitrogen, total
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) See Carbon, TOC
Total Solids (TS) 160.3 SM2540 B
Total Suspended Solids (TSS) 160.2 SM2540 D
Total Volatile Solids (TVS) 160.4 SM2540 E
Turbidity 180.1 SM2130 B
UV254 --- SM5910 B
Water in Solvents See Karl Fischer Water
VCC (Volatile Coating Content) D24
  • Many other alternate methods are available from USGS, SSSA, AOAC, etc. that are not listed here. See the following technical summary for a partial list
  • Gray indicates that MAI has dropped this method from our state certification

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