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A simple, rapid method for the spectrophotometric determination of niobium in trace amounts is presented, employing 3-hydroxyflavone as a ligand for the complexation of the metal ion and extracting the coloured complex into chloroform from 4M HClO4 solution. Beer's law is obeyed in the range 0.0 to 3.2 μg ml−1 Nb(V), with a lower working limit of 0.1 μg ml−1 Nb(V). Molar absorptivity and Sandell's sensitivity of the complex at 395 nm are 4.088 × 104l mol−1 cm−1 and 0.002μg Nb(V) cm−2, respectively. The stoichiometry of the complex is established as 1∶2 by Job's and mole ratio methods. The method is free from the interference of a large number of analytically important elements. The proposed system handles satisfactorily the analysis of several samples of varying complexity. The results are highly reproducible with a relative standard deviation of 0.34% for 20 μg of Nb.
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Chhakkar, A.K., Kakkar, L.R. Extractive spectrophotometric determination of niobium(V) using 3-hydroxyflavone. Mikrochim Acta 117, 137–143 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01244884
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