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Na+-selective nasicon electrode used as potentiometric and amperometric sensor in a wall-jet FI system

✍ Scribed by Ionel C. Stefan; Ionel C. Popescu; Pierre Fabry


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
197 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-7533

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✦ Synopsis


A Na ‫ם‬ -selective NASICON-membrane electrode (Na ‫ם‬ -SNME) was tested in a single-line flow-injection (FI) system, both in potentiometric and amperometric operational modes. The Na ‫ם‬ -SNME was homemade, using a NASICON pellet and an Ag/ AgCl, 0.02 M NaCl internal reference electrode, and it was inserted into a wall-jet electrochemical cell. For a 28 lL sample loop and an injector-cell connecting tube (i.d. 0.5 mm) as short as possible, the optimum experimental conditions (flow rate, jet-nozzle membrane distance, and applied potential value) were established. The FI results obtained in the steady-state potentiometric operational mode confirmed those previously reported for batch measurements: lower limit of the linear range 4 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫4מ‬ M; slope 58.6 mV/pNa; detection limit 2 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫4מ‬ M; selectivity coefficients K NaK ‫ס‬ 2 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫2מ‬ , K NaLi ‫ס‬ 1.6 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫2מ‬ , K NaH ‫ס‬ 3.8. For FI amperometric operational mode, the analytical parameters were better than those corresponding to the potentiometric one: detection limit 10 ‫5מ‬ M; selectivity coefficients K NaK ‫ס‬ 7.1 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫3מ‬ , K NaLi ‫ס‬ 7.6 ‫ן‬ 10 ‫3מ‬ , K NaH ‫ס‬ 3.1; a linear dependence between the current intensity and the Na ‫ם‬ -concentration in the low concentration domain