Pre-concentration tandem arrangement for measuring zinc by emission spectroscopy and analysis method

• Main Authors: TANG XIAOYAN, WANG MIN, ZHANG YING, QIAN YONGZHONG, GAO CHENGLING, ZHOU JIAN, MAO XUEFEI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.10.2015
• Subjects: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING

The invention provides a pre-concentration tandem arrangement for measuring zinc by emission spectroscopy and an analysis method, and the pre-concentration tandem arrangement comprises a tungsten pre-concentration device, an electrothermal vaporization device, a torch interface, a carrier gas mass flowmeter, an auxiliary gas mass flowmeter, a diverter three-way, a converging three-way, a carrier gas channel, an auxiliary gas channel and the like. An inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry for measuring solid sampling of the zinc comprises the steps of dehydrating and ashing a sample to be measured in air to obtain inorganic residues; heating the sample residues at about 1600 DEG C under an argon hydrogen mixture atmosphere, the evaporated aerosol containing zinc atoms contacts with tungsten filament, and the zinc is pre-concentrated by the tungsten filament; heating the temperature of the tungsten filament to be about 1800 DEG C, releasing the zinc atoms, and analyzing the content of the zinc by the inductive coupling plasma emission spectrograph. The pre-concentration tandem arrangement has a simple structure and the problems that a plasma torch is extinguished and a signal is unstable when the tungsten pre-concentration device and the electrothermal vaporization device are in combination with the inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry are solved. The pre-concentration tandem arrangement has the advantages that the digestion treatment is not needed to be performed on the sample, the trace zinc in the sample can be measured, and the pre-concentration tandem arrangement has the characteristics such as being direct, speediness, high sensitivity and good stability.