Determination of lead and cadmium in water samples by cloud point extraction prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry determination

Subject Areas : Journal of the Iranian Chemical Research

Yaping Ding ¹ , Li Li ² , Ruixiang Bian ³ , Dongsheng Zhao, ⁴

1 - Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR. China
2 - Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR. China
3 - Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR. China
4 - Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR. China

Received: 2009-01-17 Accepted : 2009-05-30 Published : 2009-07-01

Keywords: Cadmium, Lead, Cloud point extraction, Flame atomic absorption spectrometry, Diethyldithiocarbamate,

Abstract :

Pb and Cd in water samples were determined by cloud point extraction (CPE) with sodiumdiethyldithiocarbamate (DDTC) as the chelating agent and octylphenoxypolyethanl (Triton X-114) asthe surfactant prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) determination. The main factorsof affecting the extraction and detection processes were optimized. The preconcentration of 10 mL ofstandard solutions gave enhancement factors of 35 and 75 and the detection limits of 9.41 and 0.40ng mL-1 for Pb and Cd, respectively. The proposed method was applied satisfactorily to thedetermination of Pb and Cd in seawater and lake water. Good agreement was obtained between theadded and measured analyte amounts through the recovery of experiments.

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