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The cloud-point methodology was successfully employed for the preconcentration of heavy metal cations at trace levels from aqueous samples prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Cations were taken into a complex with 8-quinolinol in an aqueous non-ionic surfactant, Triton X-114, medium and concentrated in the surfactant rich phase by bringing the solution to the cloud-point temperature. The preconcentration of only 100 mL of the solution with 1% Triton X-114 and 10−3 M 8-quinolinol at pH 7.0 gave a preconcentration factor higher than 100 for most cations. Under these conditions, the detection limits of the cloud-point extraction-FAAS system were 0.8–15 µg/L.
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Farajzadeh, M.A., Fallahi, M.R. Simultaneous Cloud-Point Extraction of Nine Cations from Water Samples and Their Determination by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. ANAL. SCI. 22, 635–639 (2006). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.22.635
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