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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
Arsenic determination with graphite-cloth ribbon in graphite-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry
E Iwamoto1, C H Chung, M Yamamoto
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 730, Japan.
Abstract:
The determination of arsenic by atomic-absorption spectrometry with use of a graphite-cloth ribbon placed inside various types of graphite tubes was investigated. It was found that the graphite-cloth ribbon greatly enhances the sensitivity for arsenic and reduces the interferences from various heavy metals, especially when it is placed inside a pyrolytic graphite tube and a nitric acid matrix is used. This is attributed to condensation of arsenic on the ribbon, owing to a temperature lag during the drying and ashing cycles, and to the formation of interlamellar compounds of arsenic with graphite.
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