Chem. [f. F. titre: see TITRATE v. and -METRY.] = TITRATION. So Titrimetric a., of or pertaining to titrimetry.
1891. M‘Gowan, trans. E. von Meyer’s Hist. Chem., vi. 365. The application of permanganate of potash to the estimation of iron by Margueritte in 1846, and, more particularly, Bunsen’s process with equivalent solutions of iodine and sulphurous acid … are landmarks in the history of ‘titrimetry,’ which soon after this began to rank alongside of gravimetric analysis.
1902. I. K. Phelps, in Amer. Jrnl. Sc., Dec., 440. The Titrimetric Estimation of Nitric Acid. Ibid. (1904), March, 201. A method for the titrimetric estimation of nitric acid or nitrates…. It consisted, briefly, in the measurement of the amount of ferrous salt oxidized in the reduction of the nitric acid to nitric oxide by an excess of ferrous sulphate in the presence of hydrochloric acid.
