Preconcentration of some metals using metalfix chelamine resin prior to ICP-AES analysis

Preconcentration and separation of Ni, Pb and Cd have been investigated using the metalfix chelamine resin prior to inductively coupled plasma – atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) under various experimental conditions. The recoveries of the analytes obtained with 95% confidence level were 92 ± 1% for Ni, 100 ± 4% for Pb and 93 ± 3% for Cd.