Abstract

A sensitive and selective procedure is presented for voltammetric determination of cobalt. The procedure involves an adsorptive accumulation of cobalt pyrogallol red (PGR) complex on stationary mercury drop electrode, followed by cathodic stripping voltammetry measurement of reduction current of adsorbed complex at -1.17 V (vs. Ag/AgCl). The optimum conditions for determination of cobalt include pH 11.0, 35 ?M pyrogallol red, an accumulation potential of -0.9 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) and scan rate 80 mVs-1. The peak current is proportional to the concentration of cobalt over the concentration range of 5.0 to 280 ng mL-1 with a detection limit of 1 ng mL-1 with an accumulation time of 140 s. The method was applied for the determination of cobalt in analytical grade NaCl and water samples.

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