Hanging level

Oligopiperylene solutions intrinsic viscosity was determined in toluene at 303K in Ubbelode s viscosimeter with hanging level by extrapolation of lisp / C and ln(iirei / C) values to zero concentration [269]. 

Ubbelohde viscosimeters build according to ISO 3105 or DIN 51562, as shown in Fig. 3.1b have the advantage that the hanging level of the capillary accounts for the same mean height h of the outgoing Uquid and therefore for the hydrostatic pressure. 

An alternative and probably now more widely used procedure is to raise the liquid level gradually until it just touches the hanging plate suspended from a balance. The increase in weight is then noted. A general equation is... 

In contrast, the coupling of electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques, e.g., electrodeposition of a metal followed by detection by atomic absorption spectrometry, has received limited attention. Wire filaments, graphite rods, pyrolytic graphite tubes, and hanging drop mercury electrodes have been tested [383-394] for electrochemical preconcentration of the analyte to be determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy. However, these ex situ preconcentration methods are often characterised by unavoidable irreproducibility, contaminations arising from handling of the support, and detection limits unsuitable for lead detection at sub-ppb levels. 

Donat and Bruland [217] determined low levels of nickel and cobalt in seawater by a voltammetric technique, and the nioxime complexes of the two elements were concentrated on a hanging mercury drop electrode. The current resulting from the reduction of Co (II) and Ni (II) was measured by differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry. Detection limits are 6 pM (cobalt) and 0.45 nM (nickel). 

The hanging drop mercury electrode can usually be applied down to trace levels of 0.1 - 0.05 xg/l. 

The adsorption behavior of the psychotropic drug flunitrazepam (256) at the hanging mercury drop electrode was studied by staircase voltammetry and by adsorptive stripping differential pulse voltammetry. 256 can be determined down to nanomolar levels by using adsorptive preconcentration prior to the differential pulse voltammetry scan. The method was applied to determination of 256 in human urine530. 

Copper was removed from solution by making the hanging mercury-drop electrode (HMDE) sufficiently cathodic, thereby reducing Cu to form Cu. The electrons required for reduction are registered by a coulometer or ammeter in the circuit as charge or current, respectively. When the ammeter read-out says zero (or at least when the coulometer read-out shows that the overall charge passed is constant at a very small level and has stopped increasing), then it is assumed that exhaustive electrolysis (or deposition ) is complete, i.e. we say the solution is exhausted . 

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Hang, W., Zhu, L. W., Zhong, W. W., and Mahan, C., Separation of actinides at ultratrace level from urine matrix using extraction chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 19, 966-972, 2004. 

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