Research Article

2-Hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde-P-hydroxybenzoichydrazone: A New Chromogenic Reagent for the Determination of Thorium(IV) and Uranium(VI)

Table 12

Simultaneous determination of U(VI) and Th(IV) in binary mixtures.

Amount taken (μg mL−1)Amount found* (μg mL−1) (recovery %)Relative error (%)
U(VI)Th(IV)U(VI)Th(IV)U(VI)Th(IV)

1.9080.4641.896 (99.4)0.460 (99.0)−0.62−0.86
1.9080.9281.900 (99.6)0.930 (100.2)−0.42 0.21
1.9081.3921.901 (99.6)1.395 (100.2)−0.36 0.26
1.9081.8561.898 (99.4)1.855 (99.9)−0.52−0.05
1.9082.3201.910 (100.1)2.340 (100.8) 0.10 0.86
1.9084.6401.898 (99.4)4.650 (100.2)−0.52 0.21
0.2381.8560.234 (98.3)1.854 (99.8)−1.60−0.1
0.4761.8560.468 (98.3)1.849 (99.6)−1.60−0.37
0.9521.8560.960 (100.8)1.858 (100.1) 0.84 0.10
1.4281.8561.432 (100.3)1.848 (99.5)−0.28−0.43
1.9081.8561.860 (97.7)1.857 (100.0)−2.50 0.05
2.3801.8562.400 (100.8)1.846 (99.4) 0.84 −0.53

of four determinations.