Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science Volume 36 Annual Issue Article 44 1929 The Determination of Manganese in Potable Waters Edward Bartow State University of Iowa Harris Thompson State University of Iowa Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Copyright ©1929 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias Recommended Citation Bartow, Edward and Thompson, Harris (1929) "The Determination of Manganese in Potable Waters," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 36(1), 245-250. Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol36/iss1/44 This Research is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa Academy of Science at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by an authorized editor of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Bartow and Thompson: The Determination of Manganese in Potable Waters THE DETERMINATION OF MANGANESE IN POTABLE WATERS Enw ARD BAR'I'ow and HARRIS THOMPSON A deposit containing manganese, found in a water pipe at the State University of Iowa led Bartow and Bailey 1 to investigate waters of Iowa City, and to adapt the periodate method for man ganese in iron, to the determination of manganese in water. Man ganese in quantities above 0.1 p.p.m. is objectionable in a water supply. It deposits in the cold water pipes as a dark brown gummy sludge of the hydrous oxides, which is often so extensive as to cause complete stoppage. Manganese also incrusts the sand of filter beds, causing caking and poor backwashing of filters.