Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
Volume 185, Issue 9, Pages 7723-7738Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3130-6
Keywords
Alumina-coated magnetite nanoparticles; Chromium; Speciation; Water; Soil; Flame atomic absorption spectrometry
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- Shiraz Payame Noor University Research council
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A novel nanomaterial has been developed for speciation of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) in water and soil samples. In this study, a new type of alumina-coated magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3O4/Al2O3 NPs) modified by the surfactant Triton X-114 has been successfully synthesized and used in magnetic mixed hemimicelles solid-phase extraction procedure. The procedure was based on the reaction of chromium(III) with 1-(2-pyridilazo)-2-naphtol as a ligand, yielding a complex, which was entrapped in situ in the surfactant hemimicelles. The concentration of chromium(III) was determined using flame atomic absorption spectrometry. After reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) by ascorbic acid, the system was applied to the total chromium. Cr(VI) was then calculated as the difference between the total Cr and the Cr(III) content. This method can also be used for complicated matrices such as soil samples without any special pretreatment. Under the optimum conditions of parameters, the recoveries of Cr(III) by analyzing the spiked water and soil samples were between 98.6 and 100.8 % and between 96.5 and 100.7 %, respectively. Detection limits of Cr(III) were between 1.4 and 3.6 ng mL(-1) for water samples and 5.6 ng mg(-1) for soil samples.
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