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SIMPLEX OPTIMIZATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ARSENIC IN ENVIRONMENTAL-SAMPLES BY USING ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY

TitleSIMPLEX OPTIMIZATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ARSENIC IN ENVIRONMENTAL-SAMPLES BY USING ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsPergantis, SA, Cullen, WR, Wade, AP
JournalTalanta
Volume41
Pagination205-209
Date PublishedFeb
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number0039-9140
KeywordsGRAPHITE-FURNACE, REFLECTIONS
Abstract

Simplex optimization was used to efficiently delineate the optimum experimental conditions to be used for the electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometric analysis of arsenic in a standard reference material of marine origin. Four experimental variables, were considered: ashing temperature, atomization temperature, modifier concentration, and atomization ramping time. This combination of methods and materials provides a powerful means of rapidly improving the experimental conditions used for analysis of arsenic in a wide variety of samples of environmental origin. Excellent recoveries of arsenic were obtained when using the optimum electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry conditions to analyze standard solutions of arsenobetaine, arsenocholine and tetramethylarsonium iodide.

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