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Application of manganese(IV) dioxide microcolumn for determination and speciation of nitrite and nitrate using a flow
Meissam Noroozifar1, Mozhgan Khorasani-Motlagh, Aboozar Taheri
1Analytical Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Zahedan, P.O. Box 98165-181, Iran.
Abstract:
A flow injection (FI) method with flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) detection was developed for the determination and speciation of nitrite and nitrate in foodstuffs and wastewaters. The method is based on the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate using a manganese(IV) dioxide oxidant microcolumn where the flow of the sample through the microcolumn reduces the MnO(2) solid phase reagent to Mn(II), which is measured by FAAS. The absorbance of Mn(II) are proportional to the concentration of nitrite in the samples. The injected sample volume was 400muL with a sampling rate of analyses was 90h(-1) with a relative standard deviation better than 1.0% in a repeatability study. Nitrate is reduced to nitrite in proposed FI-FAAS system using a copperized cadmium microcolumn and analyzed as nitrite. The calibration curves were linear up to 20mgL(-1) and 30mgL(-1) with a detection limit of 0.07mgL(-1) and 0.14mgL(-1) for nitrite and nitrate, respectively. The results exhibit no interference from the presence of large amounts of ions. The method was successfully applied to the speciation of nitrite and nitrate in spiked natural water, wastewater and foodstuff samples. The precision and accuracy of the proposed method were comparable to those of the reference spectrophotometric method.
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