Flow injection gas analysis (FIGA) for more sensitive determination of Hg by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry
TALANTA(2023)
Abstract
Aiming at a more sensitive determination of Hg, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES) was combined with a microplasma-induced vapor generation system operated in a completely new manner, i.e., a flow injection gas analysis (FIGA) mode. In this approach, Hg vapors were accumulatively generated in a closed discharge chamber and after a certain accumulation time (10-120 s), very concentrated vapors were injected from the discharge chamber into an Ar carrier gas entering the ICP torch. This resulted in appearing a time-dependent analytical signal for Hg that was much higher than this acquired for conventional ICP OES with the pneumatic nebulization (PN). The proposed novel method outperformed traditional PN-ICP OES in terms of the detection limit (DL) for Hg, i.e., 0.035 mu g L-1 versus 5 mu g L-1 (140-fold improvement), and measurement precision (2.5% versus 8.3%). Moreover, (FIGA)SAGD-ICP OES offered a 4 times lower DL of Hg than commonly used chemical vapor generation (CVG)-ICP OES (0.15 mu g L-1). To validate the trueness of this newly developed method, a certified reference material (CRM) of fish muscle (ERM-BB422) as well as spiked post-leaching so-lutions of bottom sediment (MODAS-2) and soils were analyzed. An excellent agreement between obtained re-sults and certified values was found (recovery within 97.7-104%), indicating the very good trueness of the FIGA in the more sensitive determination of Hg by ICP OES.
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Key words
Solution anode glow discharge,Flowing liquid anode,Atmospheric pressure glow discharge,Plasma -induced vapor generation,Chemical vapor generation
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