AbstractA rapid method for simultaneous determinations of nitroguanidine and nitrate ion in the spent sulfuric acid has been developed. This method consists of merely diluting an aliquot of sample with water and measuring the absorbances of nitroguanidine and nitrate ion at 265 nm and 203 nm, respectively. In the concentration ranges studied, average accuracies of better than 1% and 2% were obtained for nitroguanidine and nitrate ion, respectively. The precision was better than 1% in both cases.