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A solid ion-pair material produced from ammonium tetraphenylborate (ATPB) and naphthalene has been used for the preconcentration of uranium from the large volume of its aqueous complex samples. Uranium reacts with 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol (5-Br-PADAP) to form a water insoluble, coloured complex. This complex is quantitatively retained on the ATPB-naphthalene adsorbent filled in a column in the pH range 7.0–9.5 and at a flow rate of 2 ml/min. The solid mass from the column is dissolved with 5 ml of dimethylformamide (DMF) and uranium is determined by fourth-derivative spectrophotometry. The calibration curve is linear over the concentration range of 0.13–15.0 μg of uranium in 5 ml of the final DMF solution. Seven replicate determinations of 6 μg of uranium gave a mean peak height (peak-to-peak signal between 592 nm and 582 nm) of 1.02 with a relative standard deviation of 0.95%. The sensitivity is 0.8419 (d4A/dλ4)/(μg ml−1) found from the slope of the calibration curve. The interference of a large number of anions and cations on the estimation of uranium has been studied and the method applied for the determination of uranium in coal fly ash, Zr-base alloy and some synthetic samples corresponding to standard alloys.
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Pancras, J.P., Puri, B.K. Ammonium tetraphenylborate-naphthalene adsorbent for the preconcentration and trace determination of uranium in standard alloys and synthetic samples using 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol by fourth-derivative spectrophotometry. Mikrochim Acta 130, 203–208 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01244929
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