Diffusional Microtitration of 20μL Samples with Optical IndiCation

摘要

Both the simplicity and robustness of diffusional microtitration have been taken advantage of to implement an extremely simple on-line optical indication scheme for the analyses of 20μL samples. The system consisted mainly of an LED as the light source and a phototransistor as the detector. A green LED was used in acid/base titrations with a mixture of bromocresol purple and bromothymol blue as the color indicator and 0.1 M KOH as the reagent. Correspondingly, a blue LED was implemented in EDTA microtitrations of calcium with murexide as the indicator and 0.1 M EDTA as the reagent. In the acid/ base determinations, a repeatability with 4.6% standard mw was obtained for a series of 19 microtitrations of 40 nmol samples of HN03. Further, a linear (r↑(2) = 0.998) ire-point calibration was produced with three trials at each amount in the range of 20-60 nmol samples. An equally linear (r↑(2) = 0.997) six-point calibration was achieved in the determination of CaCl↓(2) by EDTA, also with four trials at each amount, in the range of 10-40 L as a real-life problem, tap water hardness was determined with a coefficient of variation of 0.64% (n = 5).