FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 189-192.

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Successive Determination of Copper and Zinc in Walnut Kernel and Agaric by Single Scanning Oscillopolarography

 JU  Hong-Fang   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Changshu College
  • Online:2005-03-15 Published:2011-09-19

Abstract: A method for the determination of copper and zinc successively in two natural resources, walnut kernel and agaric by single scanning oscillopolarography with HCl-KSCN as base solution was described in this paper. In the base solution, two well-defined quadratic derivative waves at –0.42V(vs.SCE) and –1.03V(vs.SCE) were observed. The detection limits were: 0.005μg/ml for copper and 0.01μg/ml for zinc. The peak heights were linearly proportional to the concentration of copper over the range of 0.01~8μg/ml copper and 0.01~10μg/ml zinc. The method has been applied to the determination of copper and zinc in walnut kernel and agaric with recoveries in the range of 96.4%~102.9%. This method was shown to be accurate, simple and fast with high selectivity.

Key words: single scanning oscillopolarography, copper, zinc, determination