Abstract
Chemical vapor generation of cadmium volatile compounds was optimized in order to determine trace Cd concentrations by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Several reaction modifiers based on inorganic salts and complexes of CrIII+, CoII+, TiIII+, TiIV+ were tested to improve analytical performance and generation efficiency.
The use of these reaction modifiers resulted in 4-5 times enhancement in sensitivity, reflected also in corresponding increase of generation efficiency and better repeatability. Generation efficiency was determined from a comparison between sensitivities obtained with chemical vapor generation and conventional solution nebulization, both simultaneously coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.
The identity of the generated cadmium compounds will be discussed.