The study of a new method to determine copper ion by square-wave voltammetry-extraction lodometry at the liquid/liquid interfaces

A new method of indirect determination of [Cu.sup.2+] was developed based on square-wave voltammetry by the oxidation of iodide in organic solvent at the liquid/liquid (L/L) interface. The limit of detection for the determination of [Cu.sup.2+] in this method was found to be 5 x [10.sup.-4] mol/L, and the concentration ranged up to 1 x [10.sup.-2] mol/L gave a linear limiting current versus concentration response. For the same simulated wastewater, this method showed high accuracy compared with the result tested by sodium diethyldithiocarbamate extraction spectrophotometry. This approach could be applied to the indirect determination of the oxidative heavy metals in the industrial wastewater. Copyright © 2008 Changyan Shi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.