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1Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia.
Abstract:
Concentrations of cadmium of the order of 0.1 ppm in alloy steels containing large concentrations of chromium and nickel (ca. 17 and 13% respectively), about 0.1% of copper and a number of metals at low concentrations, were determined by anodic stripping voltammetry with a hanging mercury-drop electrode in 1M hydrochloric acid. Cadmium was separated on Dowex 50W-X8 cation-exchanger in a medium at pH 1.3 containing excess of EDTA. Mercury-film electrodes cannot be used for this determination, because the peak for cadmium is distorted by evolution of hydrogen on the electrode support. The relative standard deviation of the determination of 0.44 ppm of cadmium in steel is 3.2% and the confidence limits for 95% probability are 0.44 +/- 0.02 ppm. The error in the cadmium recovery does not exceed + 8%.
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