Determination of silicon,calcium,magnesium,aluminium,manganese,titanium,chromium,nickel and cobalt in laterite nickel ore by alkali fusion- inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry
GAO Liang
Department of Quality Management, Rizhao Steel Co., Ltd., Rizhao 276800, China
Abstract： The determination method of nine elements (silicon, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, manganese, titanium, chromium, nickel and cobalt) in laterite nickel ore by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) was established. The laterite nickel ore sample was fused by anhydrous Na2CO3-H3BO3 mixed flux, then acidified and leached by hydrochloric acid. The high salt atomizer and cyclone chamber were used. Under the selected measurement conditions, the content of nine elements in sample solution was determined by ICP-AES. The influence of salts introduced by matrix iron and sample treatment could be eliminated by matrix matching method. The precision test results showed that, the relative standard deviations (RSD) of elements were smaller than 5 %. The proposed method was applied to the determination of reference material, and the determination results of nine elements were basically consistent with the certified values.
