Selective Foam Fractionation of Chloride Complexes of Zinc(II), Cadmium(II), Mercury(II), and Gold(III)

Wladyslaw Walkowiak, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, R. B. Grieves

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Abstract

An experimental investigation is presented of the batch foam fractionation of the chloride complex anions of Zn(II), Cd(II), Hg(II), and Au(III) from 1.0 × 10-5M (metal concentration) acidic aqueous solutions with the cationic surfactant hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride. The effect on metal separation is established of the presence of Ci- over the concentration range 0.01 to 3.0 M, both for solutions containing a single metal and for solutions equimolar in the four metals. At a 0.01 M concentration of chloride, Au(III) can be efficiently foam-fractionated from the other three metals and, at a 0.5 M concentration of chloride, Au(III) and Hg(II) can be efficiently foam-fractionated from Cd(II) and Zn(II).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)975-979
Number of pages5
JournalAnalytical Chemistry
Volume48
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 1976

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry

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