title: Determination of antimony in natural waters by preconcentration on a chelating sorbent followed by instrumental neutron activation analysis.
abstract: Antimony was preconcentrated from natural waters on thionalide-loaded acrylic polymer (Bio-Beads SM-7) from 0.5 m HCl solution. Prior to the preconcentration, Sb(V) was reduced to Sb(III) with potassium iodide. The antimony retained on the resin was determined by neutron activation and gamma-spectrometric measurement of 122Sb (564 keV). The lower limit of detection was 0.023 micrograms/L for a 100-mL sample.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zmijewska
mesh_terms: D000965:Antimony / Q000032:analysis*; D002614:Chelating Agents; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000032:analysis*; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009501:Neutron Activation Analysis; D011044:Poland; D011193:Potassium Iodide; D011868:Radioisotopes; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D011868:Radioisotopes; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds; D011193:Potassium Iodide; C034609:thionalide; D000965:Antimony