Abstract
ABSTRACT The anomalous increases or deficits in the human body can be detected by the development of accurate and sensitive methods for metal quantification in low-level concentrations. Two digestion procedures have been tested on whole blood samples for use in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry trace metal analysis (ICP-OES). The two procedures are, (microwave digestion with nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide), and (simple dilution digestion with nitric acid, N-butanol, and Triton X-100). According to the findings, the overall recoveries of all determining metals for the microwave digestion were in the range of (96%) of the expected levels, whereas for simple dilution digestion they were in the range of (85–88%) of the expected levels. The results showed a significant difference in the recovery ratios in favor of lead (Pd) and cadmium (Cd) between simple dilution and microwave digestion procedures. The findings also show that the content of these metals may be reliably measured using simple dilution and microwave digestion procedures. Abbreviations: ICP-OES: Induction coupled optical emission spectroscopy; LOD: Limit of detection; LOQ: Limit quantification; AAPCC: American Association of Poison Control Centers; NAUSS: Naif Arab University for Security Sciences; %RSD: Relative standard deviation).
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