The Determination of Trace Heavy Metals in Seawater by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry with Sulphydryl Cotton Enrichment
The content of trace heavy metals(copper,zinc,chromium,nickel,lead and cadmium)in seawater was determined quantitatively by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)with sulphydryl cotton pre-concentration.By improving pretreatment conditions,optimising instrumental working parameters and choosing indium(In)as an interior label element,the influence of seawater matrix on the determination could effectively be eliminated.The detection limits of the established method were 0.06(Cu),0.11(Zn),0.07(Cr),0.16(Ni),0.07(Pb)and 0.03(Cd)μg/L with RSD of 2.5%~6.8% and recovery of 78.0%~103%.Thus,the method is accurate and suitable for the quantitative determination of trace metal elements in seawater.
SeawaterTrace heavy metalsSulphydryl cottonInductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)