PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MALIN-UROTROPIN- COPPER SULFATE SYSTEM

Abstract

Before seed treatment, the seed must contain several active ingredients. Because the mail significant part of the saved crop depends on the correct seed dressing technology. Seed dressing, or seed treatment with pesticides, is an activity aimed at protecting plants from pests and diseases, using special preparations. In this study, the physicochemical properties of the formalin-urotropine-copper sulfate system were investigated at 25 ^oC. It is established that the isotherms of the system confirmed that the density, viscosity, pH of the solution medium and the crystallization temperature are characterized by inflection points corresponding to concentrations. Analysis of the “composition - properties” diagram of the system shows that the isotherms of the refractive index, density, viscosity and pH of the medium are characterized by two inflection points corresponding to 30 % formalin and 15 % urotropine that equals molar ratio of 1:1:1. Thus, it can be assumed that the interaction of formalin with copper sulfate in aqueous solutions results in the formation of a complex compound of the composition [30 % CH₂O +15 % C₆H₁₂N₄]-CuSO₄·5H₂O. Based on the data obtained, a solubility diagram was constructed, identified by X-ray phase, IR spectroscopic and thermogravimetric. Comparison of the value of the degree of crystallinity of the studied samples shows that the degree of crystallinity increases in the samples.