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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 535-543Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10008-011-1365-0
Keywords
Voltammetry of microparticles; Carbon paste electrode; Central composite design; Brass; Lead bronze; Copper
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- BOF at Ghent University
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Voltammetry of microparticles has been used in this work for the qualitative and quantitative analyses of zinc, tin, lead and copper in binary, ternary or quaternary alloy samples. The analyses were carried out by spiking small amounts of the metals into a carbon paste electrode, after which they were anodically stripped off using differential pulse voltammetry. The work involved four separate experiments. The first one examined the type of electrolyte, which is suitable to identify the four elements. More specifically, the aim was to examine in which electrolyte all elements can be measured simultaneously-as would be the case in a quaternary copper alloy-without seeing any overlap in their current peaks. The second experiment focused on optimizing the measurement conditions with the aim of having the current peaks of each element well separated from the others. For this part, we made use of the central composite design. The aims were to: (i) maximize the separation between current peaks, (ii) determine which variable has a higher impact on the response, (iii) give an insight in the robustness of the method close to the optimum conditions and (iv) eventually show interactions between variables. In the third experiment, the four elements were quantified in their binary mixtures. Here, the percentage of the oxidation current for each metal, which is directly related to the ratio of the metal in the binary matrices, was employed for the calibration. Finally, in the last experiment, the elements were quantified in two real quaternary samples: a brass and a lead bronze.
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