Determination of Silver in Samples for Geochemical Exploration by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry after Ammonia Complexation

Isobaric ions interfere with two isotopes of Ag during determination by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), i.e., 90Zr16O1H and 91Zr16O on 107Ag, and 92Zr16O1H and 93Nb16O on 109Ag. Although an interference correction coefficient method was used for the calibration of the analytical results, the analytical errors remain serious. In the proposed method, samples were closed decomposed by nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid, and perchloric acid. Ammonia was used to precipitate Zr and the purified Ag was determined by ICP-MS using 103Rh as the internal standard. The interference caused by the residual Zr was calibrated by the interference coefficient method. The method has a detection limit (3σ) of 4.1 ng/g and relative standard deviation (n=12) ranging from 2.5% to 7.8%. Determination of Ag in 53 primary certified materials of geochemical exploration indicates no loss of Ag. Using ammonium as the reagent, separation of Zr and Ag was successfully achieved due to the formation of the stable Ag-ammonium complex and Zr-hydroxide precipitate. The separation of Ag from Zr has reduced the interferences of Zr on Ag. Compared with the high-pressure sealed decomposition method and the P507 extraction resin separation method, the closed sample decomposition method is much simpler with less acid used and a lower blank..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Yankuang ceshi - 34(2015), 3, Seite 292-296

Sprache:

Englisch ; Chinesisch

Beteiligte Personen:

SUN Chao-yang [VerfasserIn]
DAI Xue-feng [VerfasserIn]
DAI Xiao-lü [VerfasserIn]
CHEN Bin [VerfasserIn]
ZHENG Cun-jiang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ammonia
Ecology
Geochemical samples
Geology
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
Sealed sample dissolution
Silver

doi:

10.15898/j.cnki.11-2131/td.2015.03.005

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DOAJ080816126