Determinação de ions metalicos em moluscos bivalves do manguezal da região petrolifera de São Francisco do Conde - Reconcavo Baiano / Determination of metallic ions in bivalve molluscs from the petroliferous region of São Francisco do Conde Mangrove - Reconcavo Baiano

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2006

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The pollution of oceans, bays and estuaries as a result of industrial and domestic effluents that contain metallic ions is one of the most important factors that lead to the contamination of bivalve molluscs. These organisms are greatly affected by the bioaccumulation of inorganic species, even at low concentrations, reflecting the environmental contamination level. Under these conditions the ingestion of this kind of food is not recommended. Digestion methods based on heating in a microwave oven (MW) or with a digester block BD) for the subsequent determination of metallic ions in bivalve tissues by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP OES) were developed. Mixtures planned using a simplex-centroide program were to study the effect of the reagents HNO3, HCl e H2O2 in both methods. The analysis of a certified reference material of oyster tissue (SEM 1566b - NIST) under the optimized instrumental conditions at the selected wavelengths showed recoveries of 90 -105%, for digestion by MW and of 90 -100%, for digestion by BD. The efficiency of digestion was evaluated by the determination of total organic carbon (TOC) remaining in the solution and values between 0.05 and 0.64% were obtained. The digestion using MW heating showed lower values compared with BD decomposition. Using the modelling of the mixtures it was possible to determine the most adequate composition of HCl-HNO3-H2O2 mixture for the decomposition of bivalve mollusc tissues. The ratios of mixtures were: 0.333:0.333:0.334, for MW digestion and 0.200:0.200:0.600 for BD digestion. The developed methods allowed the determination of macro and microconstituents in mollusc tissues and are important tools for environmental studies

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experimental of mixtures design planejamento experimental de misturas icp oes bivalve molluscs ions metalicos moluscos bivalves metallic ions

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