What is BS EN 196-10 - Water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement about?
BS EN 196 is a series of the European standard on methods of testing cement that is essential to ensure compliance with specification and application-specific requirements.
BS EN 196-10 is the 10th part of the series of documents that the method for the determination of the water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement.
A reference method is described consisting of two stages, an extraction procedure and an analysis of the filtered extract. Guidance on other extraction procedures, suitable for screening tests, for factory production control or other purposes, is given but in case of dispute or failure to comply with a regulatory limit, only the reference method is used.
Other instrumental procedures may be used for the analysis of the filtered extract provided they are calibrated against the analysis of the filtered extract using the reference procedure. In the case of a dispute, only the reference method is used.
Who is BS EN 196-10 - Water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement for?
BS EN 196-10 on testing cement is relevant to:
- Civil engineers
- Manufacturers and suppliers of cement and cement mortar
- Quality control inspectors
Why should you use BS EN 196-10 - Water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement?
Cement performs a vital role in the construction industry as it is a manufactured material created by a complex process that involves multiple ingredients that set, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.
BS EN 196-10 provides the general requirements for testing to determine the water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement.
BS EN 196-10 navigates you through the reagent used for tests and laboratory apparatus for the preparation of a test sample of cement.
BS EN 196-10 provides details on the mortar constituents and preparation of mortar that includes composition, mixing and filtration.
Determination of chromium (VI) is specified in BS EN 196-10 with the measurement of absorbance with and without oxidation.
The calculation of the content of chromium (VI) of cement and expression of results are set out in BS EN 196-10.
Overall, BS EN 196-10 assists you in the manufacture of cement by analysing water-soluble chromium (VI) concentration in order to reduce chromate-related allergic dermatitis caused by unprotected contact with cement or cement-containing products.
In this way, you can use cement which is an extremely important construction material used in the production of many structures in the desire for improved living standards across the globe and ongoing development
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 196-10:2016 supersedes BS EN 196-10:2006. BS EN 196-10:2016 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 196-10:2006. These include:
- The normative references have been updated
- The standard has been editorially revised
