V. Otruba et al., SELECTIVE PRECONCENTRATION OF THALLIUM ON MODIFIED SILICA-GEL FOR ITSDETERMINATION BY FLAME EMISSION AND ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, Talanta, 41(7), 1994, pp. 1185-1190
Thallium (0.02-20 mug) was successfully preconcentrated on silica gel
C18 from 0.1M hydrochloric acid in the presence of various cationic su
rfactants as ion pairs with tetrachlorothallate(III), and subsequently
eluted with %% ethanol. Of various atomic spectrometric procedures co
nsidered, emission spectrometry in a nitrous oxide-acetylene flame is
suitable for the final determination of thallium in plants, this is mo
re sensitive for thallium than flame atomic absorption spectrometry.