Pre-separation procedures

Formation, factors affecting concentrations, legal limits and occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in smoked meat products and smoke flavor additives are briefly reviewed by Simko. The most widely employed techniques such as thin-layer chromatography (TLC), gas chromatography (GC), and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are evaluated. Moreover, sample preparation, pre-separation procedures, separation and detection systems being used for the determination have been evaluated with emphasis on the latest developments in applied food analysis and... 

Speciation Analysis by Pre-separation Procedures in Combination with Nuclear Analytical Techniques... 

Although NATs are thought to be unsuitable for speciation analysis, in recent years, more and more nuclear analysts have endeavored to use NATs for speciation studies by combinating NATs with specific pre-separation procedures to provide chemical species information. A variety of physical, chemical, or biological separation procedures have been developed in combination with NATs. The general experimental methods of the hybrid NATs being used for chemical speciation studies are listed in Table 8.3. ... 

Taken together, nowadays we are able to study iron metabolism and distribution at the tissue, cellular, subcellular, or even molecular level by NATs independently or by combining NATs with a variety of pre-separation procedures. The improvement and upgrade of the qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques are the challenges for further progress on the species study at molecular level and the promotion for the development of metallo-genomics, metalloproteomics, and metallomics of iron. 

Completion of the analysis. The technique of solvent extraction permits the separation and often the pre-concentration of a particular element or substance (or of a group of elements or substances). Following this separation procedure, the final step of the analysis involves the quantitative determination of the species of interest by an appropriate technique. 

The optimal reaction conditions for the generation of the hydrides can be quite different for the various elements. The type of acid and its concentration in the sample solution often have a marked effect on sensitivity. Additional complications arise because many of the hydrideforming elements exist in two oxidation states which are not equally amenable to borohydride reduction. For example, potassium iodide is often used to pre-reduce AsV and SbV to the 3+ oxidation state for maximum sensitivity, but this can also cause reduction of Se IV to elemental selenium from which no hydride is formed. For this and other reasons Thompson et al. [132] found it necessary to develop a separate procedure for the determination of selenium in soils and sediments although arsenic, antimony and bismuth could be determined simultaneously [133]. A method for simultaneous determination of As III, Sb III and Se IV has been reported in which the problem of reduction of Se IV to Se O by potassium iodide was circumvented by adding the potassium iodide after the addition of sodium borohydride [134], Goulden et al. [123] have reported the simultaneous determination of arsenic, antimony, selenium, tin and bismuth, but it appears that in this case the generation of arsine and stibene occurs from the 5+ oxidation state. 

The process of chemically modifying the test molecules before the separation procedure is known as preparing derivatives or pre-column derivatization. In liquid chromatography this is done to permit the test molecules to be more easily detected after separation and to increase the sensitivity of the detection system and less frequently to alter the separation process. 

A purpose designed CEC stationary phase that gives excellent EOF character yet allows rapid simultaneous acidic, basic and neutral separations under isocratic conditions without tailing is yet to be discovered. Nevertheless, the Hypersil BDS unbonded silica used in this work was taken forward to explore such complex mixture separations as it combines features of both pure and traditional media. As a phase, it possesses a reasonable EOF (as it is based on traditional silica) with a lower number of activated silanol groups on the silica surface (due to the pre-treatment procedure used to remove surface metal contamination). Figure 3.3 shows the separation of benzylamine, caffeine and p-hydroxybenzoic acid in a single chromatographic analysis. 

Probably, a combination of both i) digitally recording of LSC pulses plus their analysis by a neural network and ii) reducing the amount of reaction products entering the SISAK system with a pre-separator gives the most promising perspective. Various liquid-liquid extraction schemes for the transactinides have already been elaborated. An example is the separation procedure proposed for liquid-phase studies of element 107, bohrium (Bh) [62],... 

Rudolph, E., Limbeck, A., Hann, S. Novel matrix separation—on-line pre-concentration procedure for accurate quantification of palladium in environmental samples by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometry. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 21, 1287-1293 (2006)... 

Not only pre-separation of some elements (Cu, Nb, U) but also separations of nrixtures are described. The detection limit is given as either the content level in the material for the procedure or as the absolute amount at the layer. 

Derivatization reactions can be performed either pre- or postcolumn. As outlined by Brinkman, there are important advantages to using the postcolumn techniques whenever possible (68). First, the analytes can be separated in their original form, which often permits the adoption of published separation procedures. Second, artifact formation is generally not a serious problem, in contrast to precolumn derivatization, where it increases the separation difficulty and causes problems with quantitation. Third, the reaction does not need to be complete and the reaction products need not be stable the only requirement is reproducibility. Several reaction principles have been extensively applied. These include true chemical derivatization such as with dansyl chloride or o-phthalaldehyde UV irradiation, which can convert the analyte of interest into a more easily detectable species solid-phase reactions, including catalytic reactions such as with the use of immobilized enzymes and chemiluminescence techniques. 

Loon 1996, 1999, Barefoot 1999, Stafilov 2000). However, more recent instrumental methods with higher selectivity, resolution, and accuracy have largely replaced older techniques because they are readily adaptable to routine operations, eliminating the need for laborious pre-concentration and/ or pre-separation steps. For samples directly applicable to the instrumental analysis, procedures involve the destruction of organic matter by either dry or wet oxidation and/ or subsequent acid leaching (Barefoot et al. 1999, Rao et al. 2000, Stafilov 2000). 

From the area under the curves, the total hydrogen needed for reduction of the Pt surface can be calculated. A remarkable difference in the amount of hydrogen needed to reduce the surface of catalysts Ml and M2 can be observed. By repeating the Hg/Og reduction/oxidation cycles, it was confirmed that the hydrogen uptake values were reproducible within 10%. After the Multi-Track titration experiments, the dispersion of the catalyst was determined in a separate set-up by conventional CO chemisorption. The Pt dispersion as derived from the CO chemisorption experiments was decreased from 0.73 for catalyst Ml to 0.47 for catalyst M2, indicating that the pre-treatment procedure M2 indeed induced sintering of Pt. For catalyst M2, the number of chemisorption sites as determined by CO chemisorption, and the number of surface sites participating in... 

The importance of the surface condition prior to adhesive bonding of metal substrates has been widely reported in the literature. A number of separate articles are provided, which arc cross-referenced in this article or listed at the end. Here are presented a number of general comments that are applicable to all metal bonding pre-treatment procedures. The aim of the following section is, firstly, to describe the role of a metal pre-treatment and, secondly, to aid in the selection of a particular process. 

Dang et al. (2000) increased the sensitivity of NAA for Th by separating the indicator radionuclide, Pa, using co-predpitations with manganese dioxide and barium sulfate and determined Th in total diet samples. A similar postirradiation procedure was coupled to the following pre-irradiation separation and concentration of Th (PC-RNAA) by H5llriegl et al. (2005) to increase the sensitivity of the method for the determination of urinary Th excretions. The pre-concentration procedure consisted of phosphate and caldum oxalate coprecipitations. The detection limit of Th in the urine sample was about 10 pg (0.04 jiBq). 

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