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Keywords:

  • Stripping chronopotentiometry (SCP);
  • Anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV);
  • Mercury film electrode (MFE);
  • Hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE);
  • Multianalyte system;
  • Heavy metal speciation

Abstract

The effects of the proximity of the signals of two heavy metal ions in stripping voltammetry (SV) and constant-current stripping chronopotentiometry (SCP) is studied at mercury drop (HMDE) and mercury film (MFE) electrodes. For this purpose, the Cd(II)-Pb(II)-phthalate system is used, taking advantage of the approaching of the signals corresponding to Cd(II)-phthalate and Pb(II)-phthalate labile complexes as phthalate is added to mixtures of Cd(II) and Pb(II)-ions. The results are compared with those obtained by differential pulse polarography (DPP) and by stripping measurements on the Pb(II)-phthalate system alone, showing discrepancies in SCP data under nondepletive conditions and negligible differences in the other cases.