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  • A new electrochemical hydride generator has been created to detect arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) using a tungsten wire as the cathode, which offers better durability and efficiency compared to traditional materials.
  • The performance of this generator was thoroughly analyzed, revealing detection limits of 0.10 µg/L for As and 0.15 µg/L for Sb, with high precision for repeated measurements.
  • This advanced hydride generator has been successfully used in testing tobacco samples for total levels of As and Sb, demonstrating its practical application in environmental analysis.

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A novel electrochemical hydride generator has been developed for the determination of As and Sb. This newly devised hydride generator is constructed from a flowing electrolytic cell, in which the tungsten wire is selected as cathode. Compared with some cathode material usually used in electrochemical hydride generator, the tungsten cathode is of better interference tolerance, corrosion-resistant and longer working time. The characteristics of the cathode material, hydride generating efficiency and interferences of concomitant have been studied in detail. The detection limits (3sigma) of As and Sb in sample solution were 0.10mugL(-1) and 0.15mugL(-1), the precisions for 11 replicate measurements of 20mugL(-1) As and Sb were 1.3% and 1.7%. The electrochemical hydride generator coupled with atomic fluorescence spectrometry has been applied to the determination of total As and Sb in tobacco samples.

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