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The development of a new methodology for the construction of very efficient flow cells for mercury detection by potentiometric stripping analysis, employing the thin gold layer of recordable CDs as working ¶electrode is reported. This new source of electrodes (CDtrodes) show very attractive performance, similar to that obtained with commercial gold electrodes, with superior versatility. The low cost of this new source of “gold electrodes” allows a frequent replacement of the electrode, avoiding cumbersome clean-up treatments. Various experimental parameters have been optimized to yield low detection limits (0.25 ng/mL of mercury for 5 min deposition at 0.3 V) and good precision (standard deviation of 1.9% was obtained for 15 repetitive measurements using 10 ng/mL of mercury). Standard curves were found to be linear over the range of 0.5–100 μg L–1 of mercury. The flow cells developed were used for the quantification of mercury in oceanic and tap water.
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Received: 29 June 1999 / Revised: 14 October 1999 / Accepted: 19 October 1999
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Richter, E., Augelli, M., Kume, G. et al. Gold electrodes from recordable CDs for mercury quantification by flow injection analysis. Fresenius J Anal Chem 366, 444–448 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160050090
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160050090