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Improvement of Sample Preparation in ICP-AES Analysis of Ferroalloys

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A set of ICP-AES techniques has been developed for determination of rated elements: Ti, Si, P, Al, Cu, Mo, V, Sn, and Zr in ferrotitanium; Ni, Fe, Cu, Co, and As in ferronickel; Si, Cr, and P in ferrochrome silicon; Zr, Si, Al, P, and Cu in zirconium ferrosilicon; Mn, Si, and P in manganese ferrosilicon. Combination of the multielement ICP-AES method which allows precise determination of the elements in ferroalloys in a wide range of concentrations and the microwave preparation of samples in closed autoclaves which excludes the loss of the components to be determined provides the rapidity of the analysis procedure. The composition of solutions for opening samples of ferroalloys and the temperature–time modes of microwave sample preparation in an autoclave are substantiated. Conditions for ICP-AES determination of the rated elements in ferroalloys are studied. Analytical lines of the elements to be determined free from significant spectral overlaps are chosen. The dilution rates of the solutions are determined. The method of internal standard was used to improve the reproducibility of the analytical signal for Ti determination in ferrotitanium, Si and Cr in ferrochrome silicon, and all rated elements in manganese ferrosilicon and ferronickel. The spectrometer was calibrated using model solutions and solutions of standard samples with additions of the certified solutions of the elements to be determined. To determine Ti, Si, P, Al, Cu, V, and Zr in ferrotitanium; Ni, Fe, Cu, and Co in ferronickel; Si, Cr, and P in ferrochrome silicon; Zr, Si, Al, P, and Cu in zirconium ferrosilicon; Si and P in manganese ferrosilicon, a multidimensional graduation by two analytical lines was used. The correctness of the determination was evaluated in analysis of standard samples of ferroalloys and comparative analysis of the obtained results with the data of standard methods: comparison of the variances according to the Fisher criterion did not reveal any significant difference between them, whereas the use of the modified Student test showed the absence of a systematic error.

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    I. I. Chernikova, K. V. Tumneva, T. V. Bakaldina & T. N. Ermolaeva

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Chernikova, I.I., Tumneva, K.V., Bakaldina, T.V. et al. Improvement of Sample Preparation in ICP-AES Analysis of Ferroalloys. Inorg Mater 56, 1384–1390 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168520140034

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