Cold vapor generation interface for mercury speciation coupling capillary electrophoresis with electrothermal quartz tube furnace atomic absorption spectrometry: Determination of mercury and methylmercury |
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Authors: | Biyang Deng Yan Xiao Xiangshu Xu Pingchuan Zhu Shaojun Liang Weiming Mo |
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Affiliation: | Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China |
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Abstract: | A novel on-line coupled capillary electrophoresis (CE) cold vapor generation (CVG) with electrothermal quartz tube furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (EQTF-AAS) system for mercury speciation has been developed. The mercury species (inorganic mercury and methylmercury) were completely separated by CE in a 80 cm length × 100 μm i.d. fused-silica capillary at 20 kV and using a buffer of 100 mM boric acid and 10% (v/v) methanol (pH 8.30). The effects of the inner diameter of quartz tube, the acidity of HCl, the NaBH4 concentration and N2 flow rate on Hg signal intensity were investigated. Speciation of mercury was highlighted using CE-CVG-EQTF-AAS. The detection limits of methylmercury and mercury were 0.035 and 0.027 μg mL−1, respectively. The precisions (RSDs) of peak height for six replicate injections of a mixture of 10 μg mL−1 (as Hg) were better than 4%. The interface was used for speciation analysis of mercury in dry goldfish muscle. |
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Keywords: | Interface Capillary electrophoresis Hydride generation Atomic absorption spectrometry Mercury |
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