微波消解-电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法同时测定土壤中主次金属元素

建立微波消解-电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法同时测定土壤中多种主次元素的分析方法。采用硝酸-氢氟酸-双氧水体系在微波消解仪中消解土壤样品,待消解完成后加入高氯酸驱赶氢氟酸,盐酸溶解盐类物质,将土壤中所有元素的矿物晶格破坏使待测溶液全部进入试液,采用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱进行测定。通过筛选合适分析谱线和合理设置背景扣除位置提高样品分析中的精密度和准确度。选用国家土壤标准物质进行方法验证,绝大多数实验结果与标准值吻合,RSD小于5%。本方法具有同时测定土壤样品多种元素、试剂用量少、操作简单等优点,表明该方法适合大批量土壤中主次元素的快速检测。     

Pattern recognition of Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy of human scalp hair for discriminating between healthy and Hepatitis C patients

Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy measurements of six trace elements were performed on the scalp hair of 155 donors, 73 of which have been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and 82 Controls. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was employed to visualise the separation between groups and show the relationship between the elements and the diseased state. Pattern recognition methods for classification involving Quadratic Discriminant Analysis and Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) were applied to the data. The number of significant components for both PCA and PLS were determined using the bootstrap. The stability of training set models were determined by repeatedly splitting the data into training and test sets and employing visualisation for two components models: the percent classification ability (CC), predictive ability (PA) and model stability (MS) were computed for test and training sets.     

Application of Dithizone-Modified TiO2 Nanoparticles in the Preconcentration of Trace Chromium and Lead from Sample Solution and Determination by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry

A new method using dithizone-modified TiO₂ nanoparticles (nanometer TiO₂-DZ) as solid-phase extractant has been developed for the simultaneous preconcentration of trace amounts of chromium and lead prior to their measurement by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). The preconcentration conditions of the analytes, including the effects of pH, sample flow rate and volume, elution conditions and interfering ions on the recovery of the analytes were investigated. At pH 5, the adsorption capacity of the nanometer TiO₂-DZ was found to be 5.8 mg g⁻¹ and 22.5 mg g⁻¹ for Cr and Pb, respectively. According to the definition of IUPAC, the detection limits (3σ) of this method for Cr and Pb were 0.38 and 1.72 ng mL⁻¹, respectively. The proposed method was applied to the determination of trace chromium and lead in foodstuffs, plants and water samples with satisfactory results.