A rapid method for estimating iodine-125 in water samples using X-ray fluorescence for yield correction

Large sample volumes are needed when monitoring low levels of¹²⁵I in fresh water systems. Small anion exchange resin columns concentrate the radioactivity and also act as counting sources in thin NaI(T1) well scintillation detectors. Isotope identity is confirmed by decay counting or Ge spectroscopy. Recovery corrections are made by comparing the X-ray fluorescence of stable iodide carrier added initially with that retained on the counting column. The benefits from this simple, quick and accurate procedure could be adapted to other radiochemical estimations which rely on carrier recovery.     

分光光度法测定水样中的硫离子

A new simple spectrophotometric method was proposed for the determination sulphur ion in water samples.In the medium of 0.05 mol/L HCl,sulphur anion turns mixed acid of the silicon and molybdenum into molybdenum blue.Its absorption maxima was found at the wavelength of 700 nm,with a molar absorptivity of 2.48×104L·mol-1·cm-1.Influencing factors such as the amount of reagent and reaction time were optimized,and the interferences from common aions were also investigated.This method was successfully used for t...     

一种简单灵敏的光度法测定环境水样中痕量对苯二酚

在SCN -存在下,控制溶液pH5.0,对苯二酚使Cu(Ⅱ)还原生成的Cu(Ⅰ)与SCN -反应生成CuSCN沉淀,通过测定溶液中剩余Cu(Ⅱ)的量,可以测定对苯二酚的含量.吸光度与对苯二酚含量之间存在良好线性关系.线性方程:A =4.567 +0.9726ρ(μg/mL),线性范围为0.16～4.0μg/mL,相关系...     

A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of hydrazine in environmental samples

Summary Hydrazine is determined spectrophotometrically by using veratraldehyde (3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde) as a new reagent. The reaction is based on the condensation of veratraldehyde with hydrazine in acidic medium. The resulting yellow coloured condensation product has maximum absorption at 410 nm. The colour system obeys Beer's law in the range of 0.065 to 0.3 g/ml of hydrazine. Molar absorptivity and Sandell's sensitivity are found to be 6.72×10⁴ l mol^–1 cm^–1 (±100) and 0.0004 g cm^–2, respectively. The method is successfully applied for the determination of hydrazine in polluted water, biological samples, in isoniazide tablets and in air. It is compared with other reported spectrophotometric methods and is found to be of comparable sensitivity.     

Multisyringe flow injection spectrophotometric determination of uranium in water samples

A multisyringe flow injection analysis method for the determination of uranium in water samples was developed. The methodology was based on the complexation reaction of uranium with arsenazo (III) at pH 2.0. Uranium concentrations were spectrophotometrically detected at 649 nm using a light emitting diode. Under the optimized conditions, a linear dynamic range from 0.1 to 4.0 μg mL⁻¹, a 3σ detection limit of 0.04 μg mL⁻¹, and a 10σ quantification limit of 0.10 μg mL⁻¹ were obtained. The reproducibility (%) at 0.5, 2.5, and 4.0 μg mL⁻¹ was 2.5, 0.9, and 0.6%, respectively (n = 10). The interference effect of some ions was tested. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of uranium in water samples.     

流动注射双安培法测定环境水样中苯酚

基于苯酚在铂电极上的氧化和不可逆电对的双安培检测原理,建立了流动注射双安培测定环境水样中苯酚的新方法。通过偶合苯酚在一支铂电极上的氧化和KMnO4在另一支铂电极上的还原这两个不可逆电对,构建双安培检测体系,在外加电位差为0V时,苯酚的氧化电流与其浓度在1.0×10-6～1.0×10-4mol/L范围内呈线性关系,检出限为5.0×10-7mol/L,连续30次测定2.0×10-5mol/L苯酚,电流值RSD为1.4%。用本方法分别对几种含酚废水样品中苯酚含量进行测量,并与4 氨基安替比啉比色法进行了对照。     

One-step solid-phase UV spectrophotometric method for phenol determination in vaccines: Development and quality assessment

A solid-phase spectrophotometric technique was used to develop very sensitive, inexpensive, onestep procedure for determination of phenol (UV-SPS procedure). The proposed procedure is based on simultaneous sorption of phenol on an anion exchanger QAE Sephadex A-25 (40 mg), within 10 min at pH 11 and measurement of the intrinsic absorbance of the solid phase in a 1-mm cell at 289 and 500 nm, without previous derivatization. The optimum experimental conditions were investigated and comprehensive quality control of the new procedure was carried out using a prevalidation strategy accompanied by a very informative system of diagnosis. The UV-SPS procedure is characterized with both ideal calibration and analytical evaluation function within analyte working range from 0.3 to 3.0 μmol (6.0 to 60.0 nmol/mL). Random deviations (from ±0.3 to ±5.0%) and systematic deviations (from ?3.0 to +4.9%) confirmed the favourable precision and accuracy of the UV-SPS method. Evaluated limiting values (L _D = 1.0 μM, L _Q = 6.0 μM) showed that this method enables determination of very low levels of phenol. The sensitivity of UV-SPS procedure is 50 times higher than that provided by the corresponding method in solution. The UV-SPS method was successfully applied to the determination of phenol in vaccines (recovery 95.6–103.4%).     

Combined extraction/multiwavelength spectrophotometric method for quantification of gold in geological samples

The capabilities of a combined liquid-liquid extraction/spectrophotometric method for the trace determination of gold in geological samples are presented. After extraction with ethyl acetate, gold in the extracts is quantified as tetrachloroaurate with the multicomponent data-processing programs inherent in a diode-array u.v.-visible spectrophotometer. This method has an overall detection limit of 0.4 μg Au g^?1 sample and a combined extraction/measurement imprecision of less than ± 12%.     

A spectrophotometric method for manganese determination in water samples based on ion pair formation and dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction

In this work, a simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of manganese is suggested. The method is based on the formation and dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (DLLME) of a violet-coloured ion pair of Mn(II) with 1,3,3-trimethyl-2-[3-(3-methyl-3H-benzothiazol-2-ylidene)-propenyl]-3H-indolium (BTIC) in the presence of 1-nitroso-2-naphthol (HL) as ligand, and subsequent UV-VIS spectrophotometric detection at 560?nm of the ion pair formed. The appropriate experimental conditions for the DLLME procedure were found to be: a pH of 9.5; 0.12?mmol?L^?1 of BTIC; extraction solvent – toluene containing 1.75?mmol?L^?1 of HL; disperser solvent – methanol; auxiliary solvent – tetrachloromethane. Beer's law is obeyed in the range 0.055–0.88 µg?mL^?1 of Mn(II). The limit of detection (LOD), calculated based on three times of the standard deviation of the blank test (n?=?10), was found to be 0.004?µg?mL^?1 of Mn(II). The precision (as relative standard deviation, RSD%) and accuracy (as recovery percentage, R%) of the method were examined by performing five replicate determinations at four concentration levels over two days and varied between 1.2 and 3.8, and 97.7 and 104.5, respectively. The suggested method was successfully applied to the analysis of various water samples (mineral water, spring water and drinking water).     

A novel method for the spectrophotometric determination of nitrite in water

A rapid, simple, selective and sensitive method for the spectrophotometric determination of nitrite in water has been developed and optimum reaction conditions along with other analytical parameters have been evaluated. Nitrite reacts with barbituric acid in acidic solution to give the nitroso derivative, violuric acid. At analytical wavelength of 310 nm, Beer's law is obeyed over the concentration range 0.00–3.22 ppm of nitrite. The molar absorptivity is 15330 ± 259.7 (95%) with pooled standard deviation of 355.57 and R.S.D. of 2.32%. As well as the method is sensitive (2.99 × 10⁻³ μg NO₂ cm⁻²) and selective, it tolerates most of the potential interferents. It has been successfully applied to nitrite determination in natural waters by use of a calibration graph with determination limit of 1.66 μg NO₂ in 100 mL working solution corresponding to minimum 9.5 ppb NO₂–N in water samples. Lower concentrations of nitrite (3.0 μg NO₂/L sample) is precisely analyzed by using the method of dilution with sample, with R.S.D. of lower than 0.5%. The results were compared with standard N-(1-naphtyl)ethylenediamine dihydrochloride method and very good agreement between the data was observed. The method can easily be applied in the field.     

支撑液膜在线萃取富集流动注射荧光光度法测定水中痕量苯酚

选用无毒性的磷酸三丁酯为流动载体, 煤油为膜溶剂的液膜萃取体系, 建立了支撑液膜在线萃取富集流动注射荧光光度法测定水中痕量苯酚的新方法. 对实验条件进行了优化. 方法的检出限为0.4 μg/L, 线性范围为1～180 μg/L.     

CE method for analyzing Salmonella typhimurium in water samples

Salmonella typhimurium is commonly described as a food‐borne pathogen. However, natural and drinking water are known to be important sources for the transmission of this pathogen in developing and developed countries. The standard method to determine Salmonella is laborious and many false positives are detected. To solve this, the present work was focused on the development of a capillary zone electrophoresis method coupled to ultraviolet detection for determination of Salmonella typhimurium in water (mineral and tap water). Separations were performed in less than 11 minutes using 4.5 mM Tris (hydroxymethyl)‐aminomethane, 4.5 mM boric acid and 0.1 mM ethylene diamine tetraacetate (pH 8.4) with 0.1% v/v poly ethylene oxide as separation buffer. The precision of the method was evaluated in terms of repeatability obtaining a relative standard deviation of 10.5%. Using the proposed method Salmonella typhimurium could be separated from other bacteria that could be present in water such as Escherichia coli. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied to determine Salmonella typhimurium in tap and mineral water.     

Solid-phase extraction and spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of copper in water samples

A simple method for rapid and selective extraction, preconcentration and determination of copper as it's neocuproine complex by using octadecylsilica membrane disks and spectrophotometry is presented. Extraction efficiency and the influence of flow rates of sample solution and eluent, pH, amount of neocuproine and hydroxylamine hydrochloride, type and least amount of eluent for elution of copper complex from disks, break through volume and limit of detection were evaluated. Also the effects of various cationic interferences on percent recovery of copper were studied. Extraction efficiencies >99% were obtained by elution of the disks with minimal amount of solvent. The limit of detection of the proposed method is 0.12 ppb. The method was applied to the recovery and determination of copper in different water samples.     

分散液相微萃取-分光光度法测定水样中痕量肼

建立了分散液相微萃取-分光光度法测定痕量肼的新方法.在0.2 mol/L HCl介质中,以对二甲氨基苯甲醛(PDAB)为显色剂,三氯甲烷为萃取剂,乙醇为分散剂分离富集溶液中痕量肼.优化了反应酸度、萃取剂与分散剂的选择和用量、显色剂用量、显色时间和萃取时间等影响因素.最佳实验条件下,方法的线性范围0.80~120μg/L(r=0.999 5),检出限0.26μg/L.应用于实际水样测定,回收率在98.0%~103.4%之间,RSD在2.7%~3.2%之间.     

Extraction of acephate pesticide in environmental and agricultural samples by spectrophotometric method

In the present study, we have synthesis the azo dye for the reaction of p-amino antipyrine with HCl in NaNO₂ solution a 1:1 ​M ratio that was kept -5°C for 1–2 ​h, as result the absorption spectra observed at λ_max ​= ​460 ​nm. Beer’s law is obeyed over the awareness variety of 1 ​μg–100 ​μg ​mL^-1. The standard deviation and relative well-known deviation are 0.007 and 1.38%. The molar absorptivity and Sandell's sensitivity had been located to be 0.98 ​× ​10⁵ ​L ​mol^-1 ​cm^-1 and 0.99 ​× ​10^-3 ​μg ​cm^-2, respectively. Spectroscopy method used for the detection of Acephate pesticides on vegetable, fruit, soil, and water samples. FTIR method was used to consider and achieve structural information about the presented intermolecular interactions for vegetable samples. The eco-friendliness of the developed methods was assessed using the spectroscopy analytical tool on vegetables, fruit, soil, and water samples.     

A membraneless gas-diffusion unit-multisyringe flow injection spectrophotometric method for ammonium determination in untreated environmental samples

A new design of a membraneless gas-diffusion (MGD) unit coupled to a multisyringe flow injection system is proposed. The spectrophotometric determination of ammonium using an acid-base indicator was chosen to show the feasibility of this approach. Hence, in alkaline medium, ammonium ions are transformed into ammonia (donor channel) which diffuses through the headspace into the acceptor stream (bromothymol blue solution), causing a pH change and subsequently a colour change. The exploitation of the enhanced potentialities of this re-designed MGD device was the main purpose of the present work. Hence, several strategies concerning flow management were studied seeking to characterize and improve the analytical features of the methodology and moreover, untreated environmental samples were analysed without previous filtration. Consequently, stopped flow in acceptor channel with continuous flow in donor channel was chosen for the application to wastewater and spiked river water samples. A linear concentration range between 10.0 and 50.0 mg L⁻¹ of NH₄⁺, a limit of detection of 2.20 mg L⁻¹ and a determination frequency of 11 h⁻¹ were obtained.     

Dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction and spectrophotometric determination of cobalt in water samples

A new simple and rapid dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction has been applied to preconcentrate trace levels of cobalt as a prior step to its determination by spectrophotometric detection. In this method a small amount of chloroform as the extraction solvent was dissolved in pure ethanol as the disperser solvent, then the binary solution was rapidly injected by a syringe into the water sample containing cobalt ions complexed by 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN). This forms a cloudy solution. The cloudy state was the result of chloroform fine droplets formation, which has been dispersed in bulk aqueous sample. Therefore, Co-PAN complex was extracted into the fine chloroform droplets. After centrifugation (2 min at 5000 rpm) these droplets were sedimented at the bottom of conical test tube (about 100 µL) and then the whole of complex enriched extracted phase was determined by a spectrophotometer at 577 nm. Complex formation and extraction are usually affected by some parameters, such as the types and volumes of extraction solvent and disperser solvent, salt effect, pH and the concentration of chelating agent, which have been optimised for the presented method. Under optimum conditions, the enhancement factor (as the ratio of slope of preconcentrated sample to that obtained without preconcentration) of 125 was obtained from 50 mL of water sample, and the limit of detection (LOD) of the method was 0.5 µg L^?1and the relative standard deviation (RSD, n = 5) for 50 µg L^?1 of cobalt was 2.5%. The method was applied to the determination of cobalt in tap and river water samples.     

Cloud-point extraction,preconcentration, and spectrophotometric determination of palladium in water samples

The possibility of using Thio-Michler's Ketone (TMK), 4,4′-bis(dimethylamino) thiobenzophenone, for palladium(II) concentrated by micellar extraction at the cloud-point temperature, and later spectrophotometric determination, was investigated. Under the optimum conditions, preconcentration of 50?mL of water samples in the presence of 0.1% (w/v) octylphenoxy polyethoxy ethanol (Triton X-114), 2?×?10^?6?mol?L^?1?TMK and 1?×?10^–3?mol?L^?1 buffer solution (pH?=?3.0) gave the limit of detection of 0.47?ng?mL^?1, and the calibration graph was linear in the range of 2–50?ng?mL^–1. The recovery under optimum working conditions was higher than 97%. The proposed method has been applied to the spectrophotometric determination of palladium(II) in natural water samples after cloud-point extraction with satisfactory results.     

Rapid method for determination of 228Ra in water samples

A new rapid method for the determination of ²²⁸Ra in natural water samples has been developed at the SRNL/EBL (Savannah River National Lab/Environmental Bioassay Laboratory) that can be used for emergency response or routine samples. While gamma spectrometry can be employed with sufficient detection limits to determine ²²⁸Ra in solid samples (via ²²⁸Ac), radiochemical methods that employ gas flow proportional counting techniques typically provide lower minimal detectable activity levels for the determination of ²²⁸Ra in water samples. Most radiochemical methods for ²²⁸Ra collect and purify ²²⁸Ra and allow for ²²⁸Ac daughter ingrowth for ~36 h. In this new SRNL/EBL approach, ²²⁸Ac is collected and purified from the water sample without waiting to eliminate this delay. The sample preparation requires only about 4 h so that ²²⁸Ra assay results on water samples can be achieved in <6 h. The method uses a rapid calcium carbonate precipitation enhanced with a small amount of phosphate added to enhance chemical yields (typically >90 %), followed by rapid cation exchange removal of calcium. Lead, bismuth, uranium, thorium and protactinium isotopes are also removed by the cation exchange separation. ²²⁸Ac is eluted from the cation resin directly onto a DGA Resin cartridge attached to the bottom of the cation column to purify ²²⁸Ac. DGA Resin also removes lead and bismuth isotopes, along with Sr isotopes and ⁹⁰Y. La is used to determine ²²⁸Ac chemical yield via ICP-MS, but ¹³³Ba can also be used instead if ICP-MS assay is not available. Unlike some older methods, no lead or strontium holdback carriers or continual readjustment of sample pH is required.     

Simple spectrophotometric method for determination of zirconium or hafnium in selected molybdenum-base alloys

A simple analytical procedure is described for determining zirconium or hafnium in molybdenum-base alloys by formation of the Arsenazo III complex of zirconium or hafnium in 9 M hydrochloric acid medium. The absorbance is measured at 670 nm. Molybdenum (10 mg), titanium (1 mg), and rhenium (10 mg) have no adverse effect. No prior separation is needed. The relative standard deviation is 1.3-2.7%.