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Flow injection spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of selenium
M F Mousavi1, A R Ghiasvand, A R Jahanshahi
1Department of Chemistry, Tarbiat Modarres University, P.O. Box 14155-4838, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
A simple, rapid and sensitive flow injection spectrophotometric method for determination of selenium (0.005-1.5 mug ml(-1)) is described. The method is based on the catalytic effect of Se(IV) on the reduction reaction of thionine (TN) with sulphide ion, monitored spectrophotometrically at 598 nm. The detection limit is 5 ng ml(-1) the relative standard deviation for eight replicate measurements is 1.1% for 1 mug ml(-1) of selenium. The sampling rate is 25-30 samples h(-1). The procedure was applied successfully to the determination of selenium in real samples.
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