PMID- 16810641 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070816 LR - 20131121 IS - 1076-5174 (Print) IS - 1076-5174 (Linking) VI - 41 IP - 7 DP - 2006 Jul TI - Zirconia-coated graphite adsorption bar micro-extraction combined with ETV-ICP-MS for the determination of trace amounts of Cd, Hg and Pb in environmental and biological samples. PG - 887-93 AB - In this work, a new and simple micro-extraction method termed graphite adsorption bar micro-extraction was developed, for the first time, for electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ETV-ICP-MS) determination of trace Cd, Hg and Pb. In this method, the graphite bar was first coated with zirconia and then inserted into the sample solution for extraction. The graphite bar enriched with the analytes was inserted directly into a graphite tube, and subsequently analyzed by ETV-ICP-MS according to an established temperature program. The experimental parameters, which had influence on the extraction and vaporization, were systematically investigated and the optimal experimental conditions were established. Under the optimized conditions, the detection limits of the method were 0.05, 0.42 and 0.06 pg/ml for Cd, Hg and Pb and the relative standard deviations (RSDs) for 11 replicates at the 0.1 ng/ml level were 7.4, 8.2 and 7.7%, respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of trace Cd, Hg and Pb in environmental and biological samples. The results of the experiments indicate that the method has a high enrichment factor and sample utilization efficiency. Furthermore, the method is fast and environment-friendly. FAU - Pu, Xuli AU - Pu X AD - Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. FAU - Jiang, Zucheng AU - Jiang Z FAU - Hu, Bin AU - Hu B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - J Mass Spectrom JT - Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS JID - 9504818 RN - 00BH33GNGH (Cadmium) RN - 2P299V784P (Lead) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) RN - C6V6S92N3C (Zirconium) RN - FXS1BY2PGL (Mercury) RN - S38N85C5G0 (zirconium oxide) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Cadmium/*analysis MH - Calibration MH - Environment MH - *Graphite MH - Lead/*analysis MH - Mass Spectrometry/methods MH - Mercury/*analysis MH - Volatilization MH - *Zirconium EDAT- 2006/07/01 09:00 MHDA- 2007/08/19 09:00 CRDT- 2006/07/01 09:00 PHST- 2006/07/01 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/07/01 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/jms.1046 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Mass Spectrom. 2006 Jul;41(7):887-93. doi: 10.1002/jms.1046.