An electrothermal atomization atomic absorption spectrometric method for the determination of traces of nickel atIer extraction of the metal into methyl isobutyl ketone containing 1,5-bis[phenyl(2-pyridylhnethylene] thiocarbonhydrazide is suggested. The chief advantage of the method lies in its maximum allowable aqueous-to-organic phase volume ratio of 37. The method was applied to the determin...

The determination of heavy metal ions, such as nickel, in environmental and biological samples is very importance and can hardly be overemphasized because they have undoubtedly a serious potential hazard to the human organism. Nickel was long thought to be essential to plants and some domestic animals[1], but not considered to be a metal of biological importance until 1975, when Zerner discover...

Recent progress in risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and its correlation with occupational lung cancer in nickel-exposed workers is reviewed. Epidemiological investigations provide reliable data indicating the close relation between nickel exposure and high lung cancer risk, especially in nickel refineries. The nickel species-specific effects and the dose-response relationship between n...

A dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction based on solidification of floating organic drop for simultaneous extraction of trace amounts of nickel, cobalt and copper followed by their determination with electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry was developed. 300 μL of acetone and 1-undecanol was injected into an aqueous sample containing diethyldithiocarbamate complexes of metal ions. For ...

An extraction-spectrophotometric method for determination of nickel at sub ppm level using 2[(2-mercaptophenylimino)methyl]phenol (MPMP) as the new extractant is described. The reagent reacts with nickel(II) at pH > 10 and form a 1:2 brown complex, which is extracted into chloroform. The complex has a maximum absorption at 421 nm with the molar absorptivity of 2.41 × 10 M cm. Beer’s law is obey...

A sensitive and precise method for the determination of trace amounts of total sulfur in organic mixtures is described. With this method bonded sulfur is reacted with activated Raney nickel and is reduced to nickel sulfide at 70 °C. Then, the residue is separated on a filter paper and pyrolysed by induction furnace technique for generation of SO2 which is then detected by a non-dispersive gas d...

2-Hydroxy-3-methoxy benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone has been synthesized, characterized and its analytical application investigated. It reacts with nickel(II) in aqueous solution at pH 4.0-8.0 and at room temperature to form a yellow coloured ML (1:1) complex with absorption maximum at 410 nm and molar absorptivity 2.05×10 l mol cm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the range of 0.058-2.347 μg ml of Ni(II...

A simple and highly sensitive reagent of salicylaldehyde 3-oxobutanoylhydrazone (salicylaldehyde acetoacetic acid hydrazone, SAAH) was synthesized and studied for the spectrophotometric determination of nickel in detail. In the pH range 6, which greatly increased the selectivity, nickel reacted with SAAH to form a 1:1 yellow complex, having a sensitive absorption peak at 405 nm. Under the optim...

A column of alumina modified with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and dimethylglyoxime (DMG) was prepared for the preconcentration of trace nickel from water samples for flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) determinations. Under optimized conditions (pH=7.0; flow rate: 20 mlmin-1) nickel was retained on the column. The nickel collected on the column was eluted with 5 mL of 1 M nitric ac...