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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 505, Issue 1, Pages 167-171Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2670(03)00017-5
Keywords
bismuth; spectrophotometry; methylthymol blue; sequential injection; pharmaceutical products
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A spectrophotometric method is reported for the determination of bismuth in pharmaceutical products using sequential injection analysis. Methylthymol blue (MTB) was used as a color forming reagent and the absorbance of the Bi(III)-MTB complex was monitored at 548 nm. The various chemical and physical variables that affected the reaction were studied. A linear calibration graph was obtained in the range 0.0-75.0 mg I-1 Bi(III) at a sampling frequency of 72h(-1). The reagent consumption was considerably reduced compared to conventional flow injection systems, as only 150 mul of MTB were consumed per run. The precision was very satisfactory (s(r) = 0.5%, at 50.0 mg I-1 Bi(III), n = 12) and the limit of detection, c(L), Was 0.250 mg I-1. The developed method was applied successfully to the analysis of various pharmaceutical products containing Bi(III). The relative errors e(r), were < 1.5% in all cases and were evaluated by comparison of the obtained results with those found using atomic absorption spectrometry as the reference method. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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