A new method for the determination of trace non-rare earth elements in high purity rare earth oxides by ICP-AES with preconcentration on an active carbon-silica gel microcolumn in a flow injection system is described ...A new method for the determination of trace non-rare earth elements in high purity rare earth oxides by ICP-AES with preconcentration on an active carbon-silica gel microcolumn in a flow injection system is described in this paper. Experimental parameters such as pH, flow rate,reagent concentration,length of reaction coil,eluent acidity,etc. were optimized. In the buffer solution of NH3. H2O/NH4Cl at pH 4. 6,Al,Cr,Cu,Fe, Pb, V and Zn can be preconcentrated and then eluted with 4. 5 mol/L nitric acid utilizing stop-flow technique. The enrichment factors were in range of 8. 1 ̄12. 6 with detection limits of μg/m level ,and the RSD with metals at μg/g level were 2. 3 ̄5. 0% (n= 7). The method proposed can reduce the matrix interference effectively , and has been applied to the determination of non-rare earth metals atμg/g level in high purity Eu2O3 with satisfactory results.展开更多
文摘A new method for the determination of trace non-rare earth elements in high purity rare earth oxides by ICP-AES with preconcentration on an active carbon-silica gel microcolumn in a flow injection system is described in this paper. Experimental parameters such as pH, flow rate,reagent concentration,length of reaction coil,eluent acidity,etc. were optimized. In the buffer solution of NH3. H2O/NH4Cl at pH 4. 6,Al,Cr,Cu,Fe, Pb, V and Zn can be preconcentrated and then eluted with 4. 5 mol/L nitric acid utilizing stop-flow technique. The enrichment factors were in range of 8. 1 ̄12. 6 with detection limits of μg/m level ,and the RSD with metals at μg/g level were 2. 3 ̄5. 0% (n= 7). The method proposed can reduce the matrix interference effectively , and has been applied to the determination of non-rare earth metals atμg/g level in high purity Eu2O3 with satisfactory results.