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TALANTA
Volume 67, Issue 5, Pages 968-974Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.04.017
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Cd; tea sample; AFS; on-line preconcentration and separation; hydride generation; cyanex 923
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In this work, a method was developed for determination of ultra-trace levels of Cd in tea samples by atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS). A flow injection solid phase extraction (FI-SPE) separation and preconcentration technique, to on-line couple with a sequential injection hydride generation (SI-HG) technique is employed in this study. Cd was preconcentrated on the SPE column, which was made from a neutral extractant named Cyanex 923, while other matrix ions or interfering ions were completely or mostly separated off. Conditions for the SPE separation and preconcentration, as well as conditions for the HG technique, were studied. Due to the separation of interfering elements, Cd hydride generation efficiency could be greatly enhanced with the sole presence of Co2+ with a concentration of 200 which is much lower than those in other works previously reported. Interferences on both the Cd separation and preconcentration, and Cd hydride generation (HG) were investigated; it showed that both the separation and preconcentration system, and the HG system had a strong anti - interference ability. The SPE column could be repeatedly used at least 400 times, a R.S.D. of 0.97% was obtained for 6 measurements of Cd with 0.2 mu g L-1 and a correlation coefficiency of 1.0000 was obtained for the measurement of a series of solutions with Cd concentrations from 0.1 to 2 mu g L-1. The method has a low detection limit of 10.8 ng L-1 for a 25 mL solution and was successfully validated by using two tea standard reference materials (GBWO8513 and GBW07605). (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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