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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 3086-3097Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1222-4
Keywords
1,3-Alternate thiacalix[4]crown; Polymeric membrane electrode; Coated graphite electrode; Selectivity; Indicator electrode
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- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi [(01)2469/11/EMR-II]
- CSIR
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The construction and electrodes characteristics of poly(vinylchloride) (PVC)-based polymeric membrane electrode (PME) and coated graphite electrode (CGE), incorporating 1,3-alternate thiacalix[4]crown as ionophore for estimation of Hg(II) ions, are reported here. The best potential response was observed for PME-1 having membrane composition of: ionophore (6.2 mg), PVC (100.0 mg), 2-nitrophenyl octyl ether (2-NPOE; 200.0 mg), and sodium tetraphenyl borate (NaTPB; 2.0 mg); for CGE-1 with the membrane composition: ionophore (3.5 mg), PVC (40.0 mg), 2-NPOE (80.0 mg), and NaTPB (2.0 mg). The electrodes exhibits Nernstian slope of 29.16 mV/decade with PME-1 and 30.39 mV/decade with CGE-1 for Hg(II) ions over wide concentration range, i.e., 1.0 x 10(-1) to 5.0 x 10(-6) M with PME-1 and 1.0 x 10(-1) to 5.0 x 10(-7) M with CGE-1. Lower detection limits were found to be 9.77 x 10(-6) M for PME-1 and 7.76 x 10(-7) M for CGE-1 with response time varying from 10 to 20 s. Also, these electrodes work within pH range of 2.0-6.0 for PME-1 and 1.5-6.5 for CGE-1. Overall, CGE-1 has been found to be better than PME-1. CGE-1 has been used as indicator electrode for the potentiometric titration of Hg(II) ions with EDTA as well as successfully applied for determination of Hg(II) content in wastewater, insecticide, dental amalgam, and ayurvedic medicines samples with very good performance (0.9974 correlation coefficient in the comparison against volumetric method).
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