Abstract
A green effervescence-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on phthalic acid as complexing agent and co-disperser performed in a narrow-bore tube has been developed for the extraction and preconcentration of zinc and cadmium from high volume of aqueous sample, followed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. Initially phthalic acid is added to the aqueous sample to form phthalate-metal complexes. Then the sample is transferred by a syringe into a home-made setup consists of a narrow-bore glass tube with its nozzle-shaped head when its bottom connected to a glass balloon containing sodium bicarbonate and an extraction solvent at μL-level. Immediately a reaction occurs between the sodium bicarbonate and the excess amount of phthalic acid, and the produced CO2 leads to the dispersion of the extractant into the sample as fine droplets which result in extraction of the complexes into the extractant. Under the optimum conditions, the calibration curves were linear in the ranges of 0.50–7.5 and 0.30–7.5 μg L−1 for cadmium and zinc, respectively. The detection limits were 0.21 and 0.14 μg L−1 for cadmium and zinc, respectively. Extraction recoveries were 89% and 100%, and enrichment factors were found to be 117 and 131, for cadmium and zinc, respectively. Finally environmental water and fruit juice samples were successfully analyzed using the developed method.
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