Quantitative Analysis of Thorium in Standard Samples and Monazite Sands using Nornicotine Alkaloid
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Keywords:
Monazite, Spectrophotometry, Nornicotine, ThoriumAbstract
A rapid, sensitive, and selective method was developed for the quantitative determination of thorium concentration which is an important natural-mineral based on the complex formed with natural phytochemical nornicotine alkaloid at pH 4 – 6, the coloured complex was extracted in chloroform with a linear relationship in a concentration range from 6-50 µgmL-1 with molar absorptivity 1.8 x 104 (1 mol-1 cm-1), Sandell’s sensitivity (µgcm-2) 2.3 × 10ˉ2, correlation coefficient 0.9998, limit of detection 0.57 µg ml-1 and limit of quantification 1.88 µg ml-1at 430 nm. The effects of pH, nornicotine concentration, temperature and time were also studied.
The method shows high selectivity for thorium and holds its accuracy and precision well. Therefore, the method is useful when applied to the determination of thorium in synthetic solution and in the monazite sample.
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