Mechanistic characterization of chloride interferences in electrothermal atomization systems

Analytical Chemistry
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Abstract

A computer-controlled spectrometer with a photodiode array detector has been used for wavelength and temperature resolved characterization of the vapor produced by an electrothermal atomizer. The system has been used to study the chloride matrix interference on the atomic absorption spectrometric determination of manganese and copper. The suppression of manganese and copper atom populations by matrix chlorides such as those of calcium and magnesium is due to the gas-phase formation of an analyte chloride species followed by the diffusion of significant fractions of these species from the atom cell prior to completion of the atomization process. The analyte chloride species cannot be formed when matrix chlorides with metal-chloride bond dissociation energies above those of the analyte chlorides are the principal entitles present. The results indicate that multiple wavelength spectrometry used to obtain temperature-resolved spectra is a viable tool in the mechanistic characterization of interference effects observed with electrothermal atomization systems. 

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Mechanistic characterization of chloride interferences in electrothermal atomization systems
Series title Analytical Chemistry
DOI 10.1021/ac00174a010
Volume 60
Issue 23
Year Published 1988
Language English
Publisher ACS
Contributing office(s) Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
Description 5 p.
First page 2578
Last page 2582
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