Determination of sub-picomolar levels of platinum in the pristine Krka River estuary (Croatia) using improved voltammetric methodology
Jasmin Pađan A , Saša Marcinek A , Ana-Marija Cindrić A , Nicolas Layglon B , Cedric Garnier B , Pascal Salaün C , Antonio Cobelo-García D and Dario Omanović A EA Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
B Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/INSU, Université de Toulon, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France.
C Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK.
D Grupo de Bioxeoquímica Mariña, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (IIM-CSIC), 36208 Vigo, Spain.
E Corresponding author. Email: omanovic@irb.hr
Environmental Chemistry 17(2) 77-84 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN19157
Submitted: 28 May 2019 Accepted: 12 August 2019 Published: 19 September 2019
Environmental context. Platinum concentrations in natural waters such as oceans, rivers and lakes are extremely low, hindering studies of Pt distributions and biogeochemical cycles. An improved electrochemical method was used to reliably determine Pt in estuarine conditions at trace concentrations. Platinum displayed a near-conservative behaviour along the salinity gradient of the estuary, with about 90 % remaining in the dissolved form.
Abstract. Extremely low concentrations of platinum in natural waters require very sensitive analytical techniques, with adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (AdCSV) being one of the most frequently used techniques. A ‘fine tuning’ of the voltammetric parameters, along with advanced data treatment based on derivative transformations, allowed us to determine reliably Pt levels down to 50 fM (0.05 pM). By using short modulation and interval times of the differential pulse stripping waveform, and applying a 4th derivative transformation to the voltammograms, the limit of detection (LOD) was lowered down to 10 fM. Although very small concentrations of surface-active substances (e.g. 0.025 mg L−1 fulvic acid) strongly influenced the method sensitivity, recoveries of spiked samples were not impacted (~100 %). The application of a desorption step (Eds = −1.35 V; tds = 2 s) at the end of the accumulation significantly improved the sensitivity, presumably through the removal of adsorbed surface-active substances. Using this optimised methodology, we determined the Pt distribution in the pristine Krka River estuary in the winter and summer periods by performing both horizontal transects and vertical profiles (salinity ~1 to 39). In surface waters, dissolved Pt concentrations gradually increased towards the seawater end-member (from ~0.15 to ~0.3 pM). A small deviation from the conservative mixing line was observed at salinities below 10, which may reflect changes in Pt redox speciation. In bottom waters, the trend was opposite with dissolved Pt concentrations increasing towards the freshwater end-member, probably owing to progressive accumulation related to seawater residence time. On average, 90 % of Pt was present in the dissolved form.
Additional keywords: catalytic stripping voltammetry, derivative transformation, estuaries, salinity gradient.
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