The invention discloses a measuring method for cyanides in
cyanide-containing
wastewater of a gold mine. In order to solve the problem that a great number of foams are produced by heating and distilling under an acidic condition, a defoaming agent GC-1 is added into a
cyanide-containing
wastewater sample to inhibit activities of a surfactant in
wastewater, so that the
water sample does not produce foams in a distilling process;
phosphoric acid and Na2-EDTA are added into the
water sample, and heated and distilled in a medium with pH lower than 2, so that
cyanide ions are separated from complex cyanide by utilizing the characteristic that the complexing capacity between the
metal ions and the EDTA is higher than that between the
metal ions and the cyanide ions, the cyanide ions are distilled in the form of
hydrogen cyanide, and the content of the cyanide ions is titrated by
silver nitrate after the cyanide ions are absorbed by a
sodium hydroxide solution. Under an alkaline condition, the cyanide ions act with the
silver nitrate to form soluble sliver-
cyanogen complex irons (Ag(CN)2<->), and the excessive sliver ions react with 5-(4-dimethylaminobenzylidene)
rhodanine indicator liquor, so that the solution is changed into orange red from yellow, thereby ending the measurement. The method has the advantages of obvious effect and accurate measured result, and is simple to operate and easy to grasp.