Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/jsss-4-31-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/jsss-4-31-2015
Regular research article
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04 Feb 2015
Regular research article |  | 04 Feb 2015

Luminescent determination of nitrite traces in water solutions using cellulose as sorbent

S. G. Nedilko, S. L. Revo, V. P. Chornii, V. P. Scherbatskyi, and M. S. Nedielko

Abstract. Morphology and photoluminescence (PL) properties for microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), microcrystalline nitrite powders of common formulae MNO2 (M = Na, K) (MCN) and two-component materials composed of both MCC and MCN have been prepared and characterized by means of optical microscopy and luminescence spectroscopy. This study aimed to clarify a possibility of low-limit determination of the nitrite traces in water solutions by luminescent method.

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Microcrystalline cellulose, microcrystalline nitrite powders of common formulae MNO2, (M = Na, K) and two-component materials (cellulose + nitrite) have been prepared and characterized by means of optical microscopy and luminescence spectroscopy.The method of determining the nitrite compound traces via their sorption by cellulose using luminescent properties of the NO2- molecular ion has been developed and the low limit of NaNO2 determination in water solution was evaluated as 0.035 mg/l.