“…Additionally, many metal hydroxides having lowsolubility products have been used for coprecipitation purposes of trace metals from various media: such as indium, [36][37][38] erbium, 39 cerium(IV), 40 samarium, 41 terbium, 42 and lanthanum hydroxide. 43,44 A nickel sulfide fire assay and a tellurium coprecipitation technique were performed for the determination of platinum group elements with ICP-MS. 45,46 In some recent studies, Cu(II)-chelating agent coprecipitation systems were also appeared for the determination of various heavy metals by using FAAS [47][48][49][50] and ICP-MS. 51 In the current work, an attempt was made to establish a simple, rapid and reliable method to determine the Cr(III), Mn(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions by FAAS in artificial and real seawater samples, and dialysis solutions (a peripheral dialysis) after separation/preconcentration using the tetrakis(pyridine)nickel(II)bis(thiocyanate) precipitate (TP-Ni-BT) 52 coprecipitation system. The objective of the work reported here was to investigate the determinations of Cr(III), Mn(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions by FAAS in salty samples after a separation/preconcentration procedure using the TP-Ni-BT 52 coprecipitation system under strictly 752 ANALYTICAL SCIENCES JUNE 2008, VOL.…”