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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
Trace determination of antimony by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry with analyte
Pavla Zurynková1, Jiří Dědina2, Jan Kratzer2
1The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Veveří 97, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic; Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Hlavova 8, Prague 2, CZ 128 43, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Atomization conditions for antimony hydride in the plasma atomizer based on a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) with atomic absorption spectrometric detection were optimized. Argon was found as the best discharge gas under a flow rate of 50 mL min- 1 while the DBD power was optimum at 30 W. Analytical figures of merit including interference study of As, Se and Bi have been subsequently investigated and the results compared to those found in an externally heated quartz tube atomizer (QTA). The limit of detection (LOD) reached in DBD (0.15 ng mL-1 Sb) is comparable to that observed in QTA (0.14 ng mL-1 Sb). Finally, possibility of Sb preconcentration by stibane in situ trapping in a DBD atomizer was studied. For trapping time of 300 s, the preconcentration efficiency and LOD, respectively, were 103 ± 2% and 0.02 ng mL-1.
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