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Designation:D97414Designation:139/98Standard Test Method forAcid and Base Number by Color-Indicator Titration1This standard is issued under the fixed designation D974;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the U.S.Department of Defense.1.Scope*1.1 This test method covers the determination of acidic orbasic constituents(Note 1)in petroleum products2and lubri-cants soluble or nearly soluble in mixtures of toluene andisopropyl alcohol.It is applicable for the determination of acidsor bases whose dissociation constants in water are larger than109;extremely weak acids or bases whose dissociationconstants are smaller than 109do not interfere.Salts react iftheir hydrolysis constants are larger than 109.NOTE1In new and used oils,the constituents considered to haveacidic characteristics include organic and inorganic acids,esters,phenoliccompounds,lactones,resins,salts of heavy metals,and addition agentssuch as inhibitors and detergents.Similarly,constituents considered tohave basic properties include organic and inorganic bases,aminocompounds,salts of weak acids(soaps),basic salts of polyacidic bases,salts of heavy metals,and addition agents such as inhibitors anddetergents.NOTE2This test method is not suitable for measuring the basicconstituents of many basic additive-type lubricating oils.Test MethodD4739 can be used for this purpose.1.2 This test method can be used to indicate relative changesthat occur in an oil during use under oxidizing conditions.Although the titration is made under definite equilibriumconditions,the method does not measure an absolute acidic orbasic property that can be used to predict performance of an oilunder service conditions.No general relationship betweenbearing corrosion and acid or base numbers is known.NOTE3Oils,such as many cutting oils,rustproofing oils,and similarcompounded oils,or excessively dark-colored oils,that cannot be ana-lyzed for acid number by this test method due to obscurity of thecolor-indicator end point,can be analyzed by Test Method D664.The acidnumbers obtained by this color-indicator test method need not benumerically the same as those obtained by Test Method D664,the basenumbers obtained by this color indicator test method need not benumerically the same as those obtained by Test Method D4739,but theyare generally of the same order of magnitude.1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded asstandard.No other units of measurement are included in thisstandard.1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:3D117 Guide for Sampling,Test Methods,and Specificationsfor Electrical Insulating Oils of Petroleum OriginD664 Test Method for Acid Number of Petroleum Productsby Potentiometric TitrationD1193 Specification for Reagent WaterD4175 Terminology Relating to Petroleum,PetroleumProducts,and LubricantsD4739 Test Method for Base Number Determination byPotentiometric Hydrochloric Acid Titration3.Terminology3.1 Definitions:3.1.1 acid number,nthe quantity of a specified base,expressed in milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram ofsample,required to titrate a sample in a specified solvent to aspecified endpoint using a specified detection system.3.1.1.1 DiscussionIn this test method,the indicator isp-naphtholbenzein titrated to a green/green-brown end point ina toluene-water-isopropanol solvent.3.1.2 base number,nthe quantity of a specified acid,expressed in terms of the equivalent number of milligrams ofpotassium hydroxide per gram of sample,required to titrate a1This test method is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D02 onPetroleum Products,Liquid Fuels,and Lubricants and is the direct responsibility ofSubcommittee D02.06 on Analysis of Liquid Fuels and Lubricants.In the IP,this test method is under the jurisdiction of the StandardizationCommittee.This test method was adopted as a joint ASTM-IP standard in 1965.Current edition approved Dec.1,2014.Published January 2015.Originallyapproved in 1948.Last previous edition approved in 2012 as D974 12.DOI:10.1520/D0974-14.2Statements defining this test method,its modification,and its significance whenapplied to electrical insulating oils of mineral origin will be found in Guide D117.3For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.*A Summary of Changes sec