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In the present study, the determination of arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, nickel, mercury and zinc in various cloth samples produced in Kayseri-Turkey was performed after extraction with artificial sweat solution and decomposition with nitric acid. TXRF is shown to be suitable for the determination of 7 trace elements, down to the 0.001 (cobalt) to 0.004 (copper) mg/kg level in textile extract except for mercury and cadmium. The extractable part of the toxic metals by artificial sweat solution is relatively low. In a few extracts the concentration values of Pb and Ni have exceeded their critical values of 0.2 mg/kg for lead and 1.0 mg/kg for nickel given by Öko-Tex and determined for babys cloths. In addition, it was observed that the element pattern of textile samples resembled ‘finger print type’, TXRF-spectra. This technique can also be used for the identification of textile sample in forensic investigation.
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Received April 16, 2001 Revision October 1, 2001.
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Doğan, M., Soylak, M., Elçi, L. et al. Application of Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in the Textile Industry. Mikrochim Acta 138, 77–82 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s006040200012
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s006040200012