We report herein a highly selective method for directly determining the trace Co^2+in highly concentrated zinc electrolyte.This novel method is based on a second derivative wave of catalytic adsorptive polarography ge...We report herein a highly selective method for directly determining the trace Co^2+in highly concentrated zinc electrolyte.This novel method is based on a second derivative wave of catalytic adsorptive polarography generated by complexing Co^2+with dimethylglyoxime and nitrite onto a dropping mercury electrode.By employing a medium with NH3-NH4Cl buffer,DMG and NaNO2 during determining the trace Co^2+,any interferences of highly concentrated Zn^2+and other coexisting metal ions in the electrolyte are completely eliminated due to the selective masking effect of EDTA.When the concentration of Co^2+is within 1.0×10^–10–3.2×10^–7 mol/L range,it shows a good linear relationship with the current peak.Detection limit is 1.0×10^–11 mol/L,and RSD≤2.7%for six successive assays.We have compared the efficiency of the current method to that obtained by cobalt nitroso-R-salt spectrophotometry,and the absolute values of relative deviations are≤4.2%.The method developed and described herein has been successfully employed in determining the trace Co2+in actual zinc electrolyte.展开更多
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文摘We report herein a highly selective method for directly determining the trace Co^2+in highly concentrated zinc electrolyte.This novel method is based on a second derivative wave of catalytic adsorptive polarography generated by complexing Co^2+with dimethylglyoxime and nitrite onto a dropping mercury electrode.By employing a medium with NH3-NH4Cl buffer,DMG and NaNO2 during determining the trace Co^2+,any interferences of highly concentrated Zn^2+and other coexisting metal ions in the electrolyte are completely eliminated due to the selective masking effect of EDTA.When the concentration of Co^2+is within 1.0×10^–10–3.2×10^–7 mol/L range,it shows a good linear relationship with the current peak.Detection limit is 1.0×10^–11 mol/L,and RSD≤2.7%for six successive assays.We have compared the efficiency of the current method to that obtained by cobalt nitroso-R-salt spectrophotometry,and the absolute values of relative deviations are≤4.2%.The method developed and described herein has been successfully employed in determining the trace Co2+in actual zinc electrolyte.