The automatic determination of iodate- and total-iodine in seawater |
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| Authors: | Victor W Truesdale |
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| Institution: | Institute of Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh, Wallingford, Oxon. England |
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| Abstract: | The development of procedures for the determination of iodate- and total-iodine content of seawater, which use a Technicon Auto-Analyser, is described. In both procedures the appropriate iodine species is first converted to iodate-iodine. Then, this is reacted with acid and excess iodide to give the iodonium ion, I3?, which is detected spectrophotometrically. In the total-iodine procedure the pre-oxidation is accomplished using bromine water. In the iodate procedure a pre-oxidation step using iodine-water can be included. It is anticipated that this will be used to test for the presence of naturally occurring reducing agents in seawaters, which by their action on iodonium ions could lead to an underestimate in iodate concentration. Seawaters, particularly coastal and surface oceanic ones, are known to contain iodine-reducing substances. Therefore, the validity of results obtained through the iodometric method for iodate must remain in some doubt until these tests have been made. The use of this method on anoxic waters which contain sulphides appears to be a prime example of where caution should be observed. The iodate procedure, both with and without pre-oxidation, has been tested on approximately 50 samples of waters from the Eastern Pacific Ocean; these waters did not appear to contain significant amounts of reducing agents. In a similar study, it was found that there was no significant difference between the results obtained by the new total-iodine procedure and an earlier automatic catalytic one. |
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