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Arsenic Speciation, Detection, and Quantification in Drinking Water using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Almassalkhi, Brittany A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1258580087

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2009, MS, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Chemistry.
The primary approach for the analysis of drinking water for heavy metals is through the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Methods 200.7 and 200.8 for Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy, respectively. One of the most prominent heavy metals that has been of focus, and led to a decrease in the maximum contaminate level for drinking water, is total arsenic. It is, however, important to quantify the levels of each arsenic species in drinking water due to their different toxicities. In this study, a routine method to test, separate, and thereby quantify both the organic and inorganic arsenic species in real world samples was accomplished. Specifically four arsenic species: arsenite, arsenate, monomethylarsonate, and dimethylarsinate were separated in under six minutes through the use of ion-pairing reverse phase chromatography hyphenated with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Using tetrabutylammonium hydroxide as the ion-pairing reagent on a C18 column, the separation was obtained and utilized with real world samples that were tested and quantified.
Joseph Caruso, PhD (Committee Chair)
Thomas Ridgway, PhD (Committee Member)
45 p.
Analytical Chemistry
HPLC; ICPMS; speciation; arsenic

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  • Almassalkhi, B. A. (2009). Arsenic Speciation, Detection, and Quantification in Drinking Water using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1258580087

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Almassalkhi, Brittany. Arsenic Speciation, Detection, and Quantification in Drinking Water using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1258580087.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Almassalkhi, Brittany. "Arsenic Speciation, Detection, and Quantification in Drinking Water using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1258580087

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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