Abstract
A new procedure has been developed for the on-line digestion of solids in a microwave oven. The direct injection in a water carrier flow of dispersions of solid samples in concentrated nitric acid, the merging of these slurries with 30% (v/v) H 2O 2 and the microwave-assisted digestion in a Teflon coil of 100 cm permit a fast and quantitative extraction of Cu and Mn from different solid matrices, such as vegetables, powdered dietary products and sewage sludges. The development of an appropriate interphase, in which digested samples are cooled and degassified, previous to their introduction into the nebulizer of a flame atomic absorption spectrometer, makes possible the full automatization of the digestion and measurement steps of the elemental analysis of solids and it provides a sample frequency of 180 injections per hour. The developed procedure has also been applied for Pb and Zn determination in certified sewage sludge samples, with accurate results obtained for Pb but low results found for Zn.
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