The invention relates to the technical field of
analytical chemistry and
hydrometallurgy, in particular to a method for measuring
coordination number of
organic acid and RE < 3 + > by using a
molar ratio method. The method comprises the following steps: S1, preparing a plurality of
organic acid solutions of CY with different concentrations, preparing a RE3 + solution of CM, mixing the
organic acid solutions and the RE3 + solution in an isovolumetric manner, adjusting the pH value, and carrying out a complexation reaction; s2, carrying out
ultraviolet spectrophotometric measurement, determining the maximum absorption
wavelength, and determining the
absorbance A of the solutions after the complexation reaction under the maximum absorption
wavelength; s3, drawing by taking the
molar ratio n = [CY] / [CM] as a horizontal coordinate and the
absorbance A as a
vertical coordinate, and finding out an interval in which the
absorbance linearly rises along with the increase of n and an interval in which the absorbance reaches a platform or the slope is obviously changed;
linear fitting is conducted on the data points of the two intervals, two straight lines are obtained, and the value of an abscissa n corresponding to the intersection point of the two straight lines is the coordination ratio of the complex. The method is reliable in result, low in cost, easy to popularize, convenient and fast.