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Accumulation and Analysis of Cuprous Ions in a Copper Sulfate Plating Solution
Published on: March 20, 2019
[Study on color reaction of copper(II)-neocuprine-glutathione-alcohol system]
Abstract:
The colour reaction of glutathione with copper(II)-neocuproine-alcohol was investigated in the present paper. The absorbance increased distinctly by about 13.8% when alcohol was added to the system. The maximum absorption wavelength lambda max of [Cu (neocuproine)2]+ was at 456 nm and the apparent molar absorptivity was 1.2 x 10(4) L.mol-1.cm-1 in the selected system. Linear dynamic relationship was obtained in the concentration range of 2-24 micrograms.mL-1 for glutathione. The regression equation was as following: A = 0.0104 + 0.0385c. The correlation coefficients was 0.9998. The recoveries obtained were between 98.5% and 99.9%. The relative standard deviations were less than 0.9% for all analyses. This method was used to determine glutathione in soybean extracts by the electromagnetic field technique and satisfactory results were obtained.
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