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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 458, Issue 1, Pages 249-256Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2670(01)01606-3
Keywords
voltammetry; dental amalgam electrode; wine; online; medium exchange; zinc; cadmium; thallium; lead
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We have introduced a non-toxic electrode material similar to dental amalgam for use in voltammetry. Its electrochemical properties are like a silver electrode. However, it possesses a higher overvoltage towards hydrogen than silver, and therefore enables detection of metals like zinc, nickel and cobalt. As such solid electrodes are found to give stable results over several weeks, without any maintenance, and because this method greatly facilitates monitoring of heavy metals, attempts to apply such methods to various samples have been are carried out. The present paper deals with the determination of zinc and lead at nanogram per milliliter levels in wines and spirits with only minor treatment of the samples. The procedure may easily be adapted to continuous monitoring. We have previously found that audible sound may greatly increase the voltammetric signal using liquid mercury as well as silver as electrode material. This is also applied to the actual systems. Finally, model determinations of thallium in brandy with the dental amalgam electrode are compared with atomic absorption spectrometric (AAS) measurements. It was found that the electrode could be used repeatedly, without fouling, and with results close to those found by the AAS method. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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