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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 82-87Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2007.12.005
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flow injection; preconcentration; microwave plasma torch-atomic emission spectrometry; rare earth elements
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A sensitive and rapid on-line method has been developed for the determination of trace amounts rare earth elements (REEs), lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and yttrium, by microwave plasma torch-atomic emission spectrometry (MPT-AES) combined with micro-column separation/preconcentration. A strong basic cinnamene anion exchange resin is used for matrix elimination and enrichment of the analytes. The adsorbed metal ions are subsequently eluted from the column and transferred into the detector with nitric acid solution for simultaneous multi-element determination. Various factors influencing the separation/preconcentration, sample flow rate, loading time, acidity and eluent flow rate, concentration, have been studied in detail. Under the optimized conditions, the detection limits for lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and yttrium based on three times of standard deviations of blank by 7 replicates are 0.89, 2.02, 1.56 and 0.78 mu g-L-1, and the relative standard deviations are determined as 1.54, 4.29, 4.95 and 3.90% respectively. The proposed method has been applied to the analysis of the four REEs in high purity Sm2O3, Eu2O3, Gd2O3, Tb2O3, DY2O3, Y2O3, and Lu2O3 samples with a recovery range of 95.1-104.8%. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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