A simple indirect spectrophotometric method for the determination of nitrogen (as ammonia) is described. The method is based on the fact that in a neutral medium the precipitation of nickel with dimethylglyoxime remains incomplete. After filtering off the precipitate, the filtrate contains unre­acted nickel and dimethylglyoximate ions. Addition of ammonia to this filt­rate produces an equivalent quantity of nickel-dimethylglyoximate which is extracted into chloroform and the absorbance of the extract is measured.


S A NAGRA ,A IMTIAZ ,S JAN ,J ANWAR ,