{"title":"Determination of zirconium with Xylenol Orange by flow injection spectrophotometry: application to eluates from technetium-99m generators","authors":"K. Grudpan, Mayuree Utamong, C. Taylor","doi":"10.1039/A708836A","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A procedure for the determination of zirconium using Xylenol Orange has been developed from a conventional spectrophotometric one. An acidic medium of sulfuric rather than perchloric acid has been adopted, to achieve a fast reaction rate and greater sensitivity. Under optimised conditions, calibrations were found to be linear over a range of at least up to 10 ppm of zirconium. The detection limit was found to be 0.08 ppm and precisions (RSDs) at the 1, 3 and 5 ppm levels were 2.3, 1.9 and 0.2%, respectively. The procedure has been shown to be free of interferences from species which are present in the eluate from a technetium-99m generator, and has been applied to the determination of zirconium in such an eluate.","PeriodicalId":7814,"journal":{"name":"Analytical Communications","volume":"40 1","pages":"107-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Analytical Communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1039/A708836A","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A procedure for the determination of zirconium using Xylenol Orange has been developed from a conventional spectrophotometric one. An acidic medium of sulfuric rather than perchloric acid has been adopted, to achieve a fast reaction rate and greater sensitivity. Under optimised conditions, calibrations were found to be linear over a range of at least up to 10 ppm of zirconium. The detection limit was found to be 0.08 ppm and precisions (RSDs) at the 1, 3 and 5 ppm levels were 2.3, 1.9 and 0.2%, respectively. The procedure has been shown to be free of interferences from species which are present in the eluate from a technetium-99m generator, and has been applied to the determination of zirconium in such an eluate.