title: Application of displacement reactions in flame photometry-II Emission flame photometric determination of alkaline earth metals in the presence of interfering anions.
abstract: For the emission flame photometric determination of strontium and barium in the presence of interfering ions such as phosphate, sulphate, arsenate and oxalate, calibration or simple standard addition methods cannot be used. Greatly reduced errors can be achieved by dividing the sample solution into four equal parts and adding to each certain known amounts of two metal ions. One of these is identical to the determinand (e.g., strontium or barium) the other has similar characteristics to it (e.g., calcium). The amounts of these metals are chosen so that the total (molar) concentration of these should be identical in all solutions, but the ratio of the concentrations of the two metals should be different. The emission of the determinand metal must be measured, and a standard addition plot produced. The amount of determinand present in the sample can be obtained from the intersection of the emission vs. concentration line with the concentration axis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Belfast, U.K.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Slevin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Györy-Szebényi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Svehla