Abstract
A simple and hasty method has been employed for the direct spectrophotometric determination of trace amount of Ce(IV) using a complexing agent 4,4’-diantipyryl methane (DAM) with absorption maximum at 445-455nm in acidic medium at 1.3 -1.5 pH. Molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity were calculated to be 9.1 × 103 l mol-1 cm-1 and 0.015 μg Ce cm-2. Beer’s law was found to be defensible over the cerium concentration range of 0-5.5 μg ml-1. Effect of large number of cations, anions and complexing agents was also studied and several analytically important ions do not cause interference in the procedure except thiourea and EDTA. The method has good reproducibility and has been satisfactorily applied in the determination of cerium in samples.
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