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This work shows how the molecular weight of sodium alginate can be determined by measuring the values of the osmotic pressure, P, in the presence of low concentrations of sodium chloride, and extrapolation of P/C to C = 0, where C is the concentration of sodium alginate. For different samples of sodium alginate the slope of the curve P/C against C was independent of the molecular weight. Molecular weight values from 48,000 to 186,000 were obtained. The intrinsic viscosity of the different samples were linearly related to the degree of polymerization.
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Donnan et al. (1950) studied this question.
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