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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 64, Issue 6, Pages 602-608Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1134/S1061934809060112
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An on-line solid phase extraction method, linked to inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), has been examined using octadecyl-bonded silica cartridge for determination of low levels of uranium and thorium in aqueous samples. 2,3-dihydro-9,10-dihydroxy-1,4-anthracenedion forms a hydrophobic complex with cations and the resulted complex was retained on SPE. The retained complex was eluted using an acidic solution and introduced into ICP for determination. Various effective parameters and chemical variables such as sample pH, amount of ligand (as a complexing agent), sampling and eluting flow rates and concentration of the eluent were optimized. Under optimal conditions, calibration curves with dynamic linear ranges of 1-200 mu g/L (r (2) = 0.9999) and 1-500 mu g/L (r (2) = 0.9994) for U and Th were obtained, respectively. Detection limits based on three times of standard deviations of blank by 6 replicates were 0.69 mu g/L and 0.84 mu g/L for U and Th, respectively. Sample throughput was 10 samples/h. The interference effects of several metal ions on percentage of recovery of U and Th were also studied. The method was applied to the recovery and sequential determination of these actinide elements in different water samples.
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