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Clean Sampling and Analysis of River and Estuarine Waters for Trace Metal Studies
Published on: July 1, 2016
Separation of Tl(I) and Tl(III) from environmental water samples by flotation method coupled with Zeeman ETAAS
Jozica Majda Bundalevska1, Ikbal Koyuncu, Umit Ay
1Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia.
Abstract:
An accurate, fast, and simple method for determination of thallium in environmental water samples with Zeeman electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ZETAAS) by previous flotation preconcentration is given. The possibility of using cobalt(III) hexamethylenedithiocarbamate as a colloidal precipitate collector for simultaneous flotation separation of Tl(I) and Tl(III) from water matrices was studied. All experimental parameters influencing a proper flotation of both thallium ions were ascertained. The developed procedure with Co(HMDTC)3 is applied for preconcentration and separation of total thallium in water matrix before ZETAAS. The results of ZETAAS analysis are compared with those obtained by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry. The ZETAAS limit of detection of thallium preconcentrated by Co(HMDTC)3 is 0.031 microg/L.
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