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  • Title: Flow injection catalytic spectrophotometric simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate.
    Author: Yue XF, Zhang ZQ, Yan HT.
    Journal: Talanta; 2004 Jan 09; 62(1):97-101. PubMed ID: 18969269.
    Abstract:
    A new flow injection catalytic spectrophotometric method is proposed for the simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate based on the catalytic effect of nitrite on the redox reaction between crystal violet and potassium bromate in phosphoric acid medium and nitrate being on-line reduced to nitrite with a cadmium-coated zinc reduction column. The redox reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in the absorbance of crystal violet at the maximum absorption wavelength of 610nm. A technique of inserting a reduction column into sampling loop is adopted and the flow injection system produces a signal with a shoulder. The height of shoulder in the ascending part of the peak corresponds to the nitrite concentration and the maximum of the peak corresponds to nitrate plus nitrite. The detection limits are 0.3ngml(-1) for nitrite and 1.0ngml(-1) for the nitrate. Up to 32 samples can be analyzed per hour with a relative standard deviation of less than 2%. The method has been successfully applied for the simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate in natural waters.
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