Speciation and determination of inorganic antimony in tea infusion by using solid-phase extraction-based liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
Jiacai Hu, Xiuming Lv, Hao Zhang, B. Zhu, De-ye Liu, W. Ji
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Abstract In this work, we developed a method to separate and detect inorganic antimony (iSb) in tea infusions based on liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LC-ICP-MS). Considering that iSb was present in tea infusions in trace amounts, a commercial solid-phase extraction (SPE) column was employed to enrich iSb(III) and iSb(V). In this study, we found that iSb exists in tea infusions in a bound state with an unknown substance rather than in a free state. Therefore, the enrichment step was combined with oxidation and reduction processes. Because of the enrichment process and the high sensitivity of LC-ICP-MS, the LODs of iSb(III) and iSb(V) were both as low as 0.03 μg L−1. The RSDs (n = 6) of iSb(III) and iSb(V) were all below 8.1%, and the recoveries (n = 6) were 92–96% and 90–94%, respectively. Then, a total of six tea infusion samples were inspected. The data revealed that the total Sb in the tea infusions ranged from 0.22 to 0.97 μg L−1, and we found that 50–83% of the total Sb in the tea infusion was iSb. This method is worth promoting since it has satisfying methodological performance. Graphical abstract
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