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JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 59, Issue 6, Pages 782-787Publisher
CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1002/jccs.201100561
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Cadmium; Fe3O4 nanoparticles; Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide; Solid phase extraction; Flame atomic absorption spectrometry
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A solid-phase extraction (SPE) method has been presented for the selective separation and preconcentration of trace amounts of cadmium using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs). The method is based on the sorption of cadmium as CdI42- complex on the positively charged surface of the CTAB-coated Fe3O4 NPs. The preconcentrated cadmium is then desorbed from the surface of the sorbent and is determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. The influences of the experimental parameters including pH of the solutions, amount of surfactant, iodide concentration, sample volume, eluent type and volume on the recovery of the analyte ions were investigated. Under the optimum conditions by the extraction of 500 nil., of aqueous samples, a preconcentration factor of 250 was achieved. The detection limit (3s) was 0.06 mu g L-1, and the relative standard deviations at 0.5 and 5 mu g L-1 levels of cadmium (n = 10) were 3.2 and 1.9% respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of cadmium in water samples. The accuracy was evaluated through the recovery experiments and independent analysis by the graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS).
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