Selective and Sensitive Determination of Mercury(II) Ions in River and Sea Water by an Automatic HPLC System Combined with On-line Column Enrichment

Autor: Sachi Okada, Youichi Fujii, Susumu Ichinoki
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies. 28:1751-1764
ISSN: 1520-572X
1082-6076
DOI: 10.1081/jlc-200060482
Popis: A selective and sensitive determination method for mercury (Hg) ions in river and sea water by reversed‐phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been developed. A one milliliter water sample containing Hg(II) ions was put into a 4 mL sample tube. To the sample tube, 2 mL of 0.5 mol/L (M) tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBA‐Br) solution was added to form a neutral Hg compound. The Hg compound subsequently became pre‐concentrated in a mini‐column packed with 5 µm ODS. By switching the valve, the Hg compound was separated in an ODS analytical column, and detected with a photometric detector (255 nm). These processes occur automatically, except for the addition of water samples and 0.5 M TBA‐Br. The correlation coefficient of the calibration curves (metal concentration vs. peak area) obtained with 1 mL of mercury standard was more than 0.9995 over the range of 1 ng/mL (ppb) to 10 µg/mL (ppm). The detection limit of Hg ions in 1 mL solution was 0.5 ppb, which corresponded to 3 times the sta...
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