Development of methodologies to determine aluminum,cadmium,chromium and lead in drinking waterby ET AAS using permanent modifiers

摘要

In this work,methodologies were developed to determine aluminum (Al),cadmium chromium and lead in drinking water by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry using permanent modifiers.No use of modifier,iridium,ruthenium,rhodium and zirconium (independently,500 mug) were tested to each one analyte through the pyrolysis and atomization temperatures curves.As the matrix is very simple,did not had occurred problems with the background for all metals.The best results obtained for cadmium and chromium was with the use of rhodium permanent modifier.For lead and aluminum,the best choice was the use of zirconium.The selection for the modifier took into account the sensitivity,form of the absorption pulse and low atomization temperature (what contributes to elevate the useful life of the graphite tube).For aluminum using zirconium permanent,the best pyrolysis and atomization temperatures were respectively,of 1000 and 2500 deg C with a characteristic mass (1% of absorbance,m_0) of 19 pg (recommended of 20 pg).For cadmium,with use of rhodium the best temperatures for the pyrolysis and atomization were respectively of 400 and 1100 deg C,with a symmetrical peak and with a m_0 of 1.0 pg (recommended of 1.0 pg).For chromium with rhodium permanent,the best temperatures for pyrolysis and atomization were respectively of 1000 and 2200 deg C,with symmetrical peak and m_0 of 5.3 pg (recommended of 5.5 pg).For lead with zirconium permanent,the best temperatures for pyrolysis and atomization were of 700 and 2400 deg C,with symmetrical peak and with m_0 of 30 pg (recommended of 20 pg).Water samples spiked with each one of the metals in four different levels inside of the acceptable values presented recoveries always close to 100%.The detection limits were of 0.1 mug1~(-1) for cadmium0.2mug1~(-1) for chromium0.5 (xgl~(-1) for lead and l.4mugl~(-1) for aluminum.