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Determination of Inorganic Arsenic in a Wide Range of Food Matrices using Hydride Generation - Atomic Absorption Spectrometry.
Published on: September 1, 2017
Determination of lead in drinking waters by hydride generation and atomic-absorption spectroscopy, and three other
1Laboratory Services Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 125 Resources Road, Rexdale, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Simultaneous presence of copper and nickel in potable waters interferes with the determination of lead at trace levels by the hydride-atomic-absorption spectrophotometric method. This interference is eliminated by co-precipitating lead with manganese dioxide from acidic solution. The precipitate is dissolved in 0.85% nitric acid and analysed by the automated hydride-atomic-absorption method. This method has been applied to 22 representative water samples and results compared with those obtained by using differential pulse anodic-stripping voltammetry, flame atomic-absorption and graphite-furnace atomic-absorption spectrophotometry. The precision of the three methods is reported and their accuracy checked by the analysis of reference standard water samples. The sensitivity of the three methods is of the order of 1 mug/l., compared to 100 mug/l. for flame atomic-absorption. The merits of each method are discussed.
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