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Simultaneous Voltammetric Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite Ions Using a Copper Electrode Pretreated by Dissolution/Redeposition

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Nitrate and nitrite ions were found to be successfully electroreduced at an in situ electrochemically pretreated copper electrode in acidic media, and their reduction peaks of a cyclic voltammogram were found at two distinct electrode potentials. Cyclic voltammetric experiments revealed a highly sensitive behavior of the pretreated copper electrode upon the electroreduction of nitrate and nitrite ions, and showed that a simultaneous voltammetric determination of the ions was achievable. Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) was applied to the simultaneous determination. As a result, the detection limits were 0.26 and 0.17 µmol dm–3 for nitrate and nitrite ions, respectively. Simultaneous determinations for real samples (river water) were carried out by DPV at the pretreated copper electrode and spectrophotometry (the Griess method). The determination values obtained by both methods were in a good agreement with each other.

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Shariar, S.M., Hinoue, T. Simultaneous Voltammetric Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite Ions Using a Copper Electrode Pretreated by Dissolution/Redeposition. ANAL. SCI. 26, 1173–1179 (2010). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.26.1173

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