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Separation and determination of fluoride in plant samples
1State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2871, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A simple and rapid separation method is described for the determination of fluoride in plant samples. Fluoride is separated by distillation in the presence of H(2)SO(4) and H(2)O(2) in a dry air steam. The variables that influence the distillation quantitation were optimized. The fluorides separated were subsequently determined by a spectrophotometric method of the La(III)-F(-)-alizarin complexone system. The precision of the procedure was significant, and the RSD was 3.7%. The accuracy of the method was statistically satisfactory, and the recovery was from 95.9 to 104.4%.
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