Generation of selenium hydride from alkaline solutions: a new concept of the hydride generation-atomic absorption technique

The use of hydride generation is often useful in environmental analysis. The normal acid sodium tetrahydroborate reaction provides exceptional sensitivity with continuous flow hydride generators. In some situations there are interferences which will mask the sensitivity. An alternative chemistry system is described here and is shown to offer similar sensitivity to that normally used. A commercial continuous flow analyser is used in this work

Theoretical and Practical Considerations of the Newer Methods of the European Pharmacopeia for the Assay of Halide Salts of Organic Bases

A certain type of titration methods have appeared with an increasing frequency during the last years, this being evident surveying the latest editions of the European Pharmacopeia (1997-2001) [1-3], where there are now more than fifty monographs on the assay of halide salt of organic bases by potentiometric titration of the sample dissolved in ethanol or in an ethanolwater mixture with sodium hydroxide after addition of a defined volume of diluted hydrochloric acid [...