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      Exploiting the bead injection concept for sequential determination of copper and mercury ions in river-water samples.

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      Talanta
      Elsevier BV

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          A procedure involving bead-injection concept and sequential determination of copper and mercury ions in river-water samples is proposed. The method is based on the solid-phase extraction of both metal ions on the same beads surface (Chelex 100 resin) and in their subsequent reaction with the colorimetric reagents (APDC and Dithizone for copper and mercury ions, respectively). For this task, a resin mini-column is established in the optical path by the selection, introduction and trapping of a defined volume of the Chelex-100 resin beads suspension in the flow system. The passage of the sample solution through the resin mini-column promotes the sorption of Cu(II) ions and, making the APDC colorimetric reagent flows through the beads, the formation of the coloured complex on the solid phase surface occurs. The absorbance of the formed APDC-Cu complex is then monitored at 436nm and the spent beads are discarded. Packing another resin mini-column in the flow cell and repeating the concentration step it is possible to carried out the mercury determination by using Dithizone as reagent. The absorbance of the Dithizone-Hg complex is monitored at 500nm. After each measurement, the spent beads are wasted and a new portion of fresh one is trapped in the system, letting it ready for the next measurement. The bead injection system is versatile and can be used to concentrate different sample volumes, which permits the determination of a wide range of copper and mercury ions concentrations. When the sample-selected volumes are 100 and 1000mul the analytical ranges were 5.0 up to 500.0mugl(-1) and 2.5 up to 30.0mugl(-1) for Cu(II) and Hg(II) ions, respectively. Under these conditions, the detection limit was estimated as 0.63 and 0.25mugl(-1) for copper and mercury ions determination. The system consumes 2mg of Chelex 100 resin beads, 0.20mg of APDC or 1.25mg of Dithizone per determination and the traditional organic solvent extraction methodology, normally used in connection with APDC and Dithizone reagents, is not used here which permits to classify the present method as green.

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          Journal
          Talanta
          Talanta
          Elsevier BV
          1873-3573
          0039-9140
          Nov 15 2004
          : 64
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790, DQI, Maringá, PR 87020-990, Brazil.
          Article
          S0039-9140(04)00224-3
          10.1016/j.talanta.2004.04.018
          18969702
          ebb50c33-1acf-4aec-9eb6-4b4d13b74f51
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