A new and direct method for the trace element determination in cauliflower by differential pulse polarography.

Talanta

Gazi Universitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Kimya Bölümü, 06500 Ankara, Turkey.

Published: February 2004

Using the DPP polarograms of wet digested cauliflower sample in acetate buffer at pH values of 2, 4 and 6, Fe, Zn, Mo, Se, Cr, Cd, Pb, Ti and Cu quantities were determined. The best separation and determination conditions for Zn, Se and Mo was pH 2; for Cr, Zn, Mo and As was pH 4; for Pb pH 6, for Ti, Cu and Fe was pH 6-7 EDTA, for Cd pH 2 EDTA and for lead pH 6, all in acetate buffer. The trace element ranges for cauliflowers from two different seasons were (first figure for winter, the second for summer) for Se 120-250mugg(-1), Fe 70-85mugg(-1), Cu 320-150mugg(-1), Ti 90-120mugg(-1), Cr 130-630mugg(-1), Zn 90-550mugg(-1), Mo 170-230mugg(-1), Cd 20mugg(-1) (in winter) and Pb 130-300mugg(-1) in dry sample. Cd was under the detection limit in summer. The length of digestion time had no effect on the recovery of copper, iron, molybdenum and zinc between 15 and 3h of digestion.

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