Abstract
A collaborative study was conducted on the 'atomic absorption spectrophotometric method for measuring the concentration of copper in alcoholic products. In this method, the samples are aspirated directly into the burner of the instrument, and the absorhance values are converted to ppm copper by reference to a standard curve. Data show good precision and are comparable to those obtained by the ZDBT method. It is recommended that the atomic absorption method be adopted as official, first action.
A simple and sensitive derivative spectrophotometric method for simultaneous determination of nickel and copper using 6-(2- naphthyl)-2,3-dihydro-1,2,4-triazine-3-thione (NDTT) as a selective analytical reagent was developed. The complexes of metal ions with NDTT were formed immediately in basic media and extracted with chloroform. The zero-crossing measurement technique was found suitable for the direct measurement of the third-derivative value of Ni-NDTT and Cu-NDTT at 501 and 472 nm respectively. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration range 1-30 μg/mL for both cations with different ratios. The limit of detection was 0.26 μg/mL and 0.13 μg/mL for copper and nickel respectively. The within day and between day variations showed coefficient of variation (CV%) values less than 2.80 and 2.97 for copper and nickel respectively. The error of the determination method did not exceed 6.50%. Analysis of alloy sample showed that this method can be successfully used for simultaneous determination of Cu and Ni in real samples.
Third Derivative Spectrophotometric Method for Simultaneous Determination of Copper and Nickel Using 6-(2-Naphthyl)-2, 3-dihydro-1,2,4- triazine-3-thione