ASTM D4905-99(2020)

This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
Designation: D4905 − 99 (Reapproved 2020)
Standard Practice for
Preparation of Solution of Solid, Pasty and Powdered
Vegetable Tannin Extracts
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D4905; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope 2.2 ALCA Method:
A11 Preparation of Solution of Solid, Pasty, and Powdered
1.1 This practice covers a standard procedure for use in
Extracts
preparing the analytical solution required for the analysis of
solid, pasty, or powdered vegetable tannin extracts.
3. Summary of Practice
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as
3.1 This practice describes a procedure to follow in the
standard. No other units of measurement are included in this
preparation of analytical strength solutions from samples of
standard.
solid, pasty, and powdered vegetable tannin extracts.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the 4. Significance and Use
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
4.1 The concentration of tannins in solid, pasty, and pow-
priate safety, health, and environmental practices and deter-
dered extracts needs to be reduced to analytical strength for
mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
tannin analyses.
1.4 This international standard was developed in accor-
4.2 Vegetable tannin extracts are heterogeneous mixtures of
dance with internationally recognized principles on standard-
components with varying solubility.
ization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recom-
4.3 The solubility of such extracts is influenced by tempera-
mendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical ture and concentration, which affect the degree of dispersion
Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
and size of the component particles.
4.4 Since extracts have greater solubility in hot water than
2. Referenced Documents
cold, it is desirable to dissolve and disperse an extract in hot
2.1 ASTM Standards:
water and then let the solution cool slowly to standard room
D4903 Test Method for Total Solids and Water in Vegetable
temperature.
Tanning Material Extracts
4.5 It is often difficult to reduce samples of solid and
D4904 Practice for Cooling of Analytical Solutions
particularly pasty extracts to specimen size and at the same
D6403 Test Method for Determining Moisture in Raw and
time ensure representative sampling. Therefore, caution is
Spent Materials
advised in drawing conclusions on the precision and bias of the
D6404 Practice for Sampling Vegetable Materials Contain-
results obtained on such extracts; where difficulties in sample
ing Tannin
preparation are experienced, little confidence can be placed in
the results.
This practice is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Committee D31 on Leather and
is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D31.01 on Vegetable Leather. This
5. Specimen
practice has been adapted from, and is a replacement for, MethodA11 of the Official
Methods of the American Leather Chemists Association.
5.1 The specimen shall consist of a portion of the extract
Current edition approved Dec. 1, 2020. Published December 2020. Originally
sample, prepared as described in Practice D6404, sufficient to
approved in 1989. Last previous edition approved in 2016 as D4905 – 99 (2016).
DOI: 10.1520/D4905-99R20.
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contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM Official Methods of the American Leather Chemists Association. Available
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D4905 − 99 (2020)
give a solution containing as nearly as possible4gof tannin 7.2.1 Treat the air-dried sample, prepared as above, as in
per L (not less than 3.75 g, nor more than 4.25 g, per L). paragraph 7.1, above. In such
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