An Evaluation of the Ion Selective Electrode Method for Determination of Nitrate in Highly Mineralized Drinking Water

Shechter, Hana; Gruener, Nahman

doi:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1976.tb02489.x

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“…More recently, chromatographic techniques using sophisticated and costly instrumentation, such as ion chromatography (IC), LC, and GC/MS, have found application in environmental NO 3 monitoring studies and biomedical research (1,4). Other commonly used techniques for direct NO 3 measurement include colorimetric determination using reaction with chromotropic acid (CTA; 5), potentiometric analysis using nitrate-specific electrodes (6), and quantification by UV absorbance spectrometry (7,8). Unfortunately, many of these techniques are severely compromised by common sample matrix components, such as excess salt, phosphate, colored pigments, soluble proteins, enzymes, humic substances, etc., precluding their use unless expensive and time-consuming cleanup procedures are used.…”

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A New Cadmium Reduction Device for the Microplate Determination of Nitrate in Water, Soil, Plant Tissue, and Physiological Fluids

Crutchfield

Grove

2011

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

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A reusable catalytic reductor consisting of 96 copperized-cadmium pins attached to a microplate lid was developed to simultaneously reduce nitrate (NO3-) to nitrite (NO2-) in all wells of a standard microplate. The resulting NO2- is analyzed colorimetrically by the Griess reaction using a microplate reader. Nitrate data from groundwater samples analyzed using the new device correlated well with data obtained by ion chromatography (r2 = 0.9959). Soil and plant tissue samples previously analyzed for NO3- in an interlaboratory validation study sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America were also analyzed using the new technique. For the soil sample set, the data are shown to correlate well with the other methods used (r2 = 0.9976). Plant data correlated less well, especially for samples containing low concentrations of NO3-. Reasons for these discrepancies are discussed, and new techniques to increase the accuracy of the analysis are explored. In addition, a method is presented for analyzing NO3- in physiological fluids (blood serum and urine) after matrix modification with Somogyi's reagent. A protocol for statistical validation of data when analyzing samples with complex matrixes is also established. The simplicity, adaptability, and low cost of the device indicate its potential for widespread application.

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