Speciation of heavy metals in water from the Uganda side of Lake Victoria
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Date
2010-02
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Tailor and Francis
Abstract
Different forms of copper Cu, zinc Zn, lead Pb and cadmium Cd in water from the Uganda side of
Lake Victoria (25°C, pH 6.75–7.18), the second largest inland freshwater lake in the world, have
been studied using ion-exchange, dialysis and atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The results
indicate that heavy metals Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd are present mainly in the cationic form (80–83%).
Small quantities of anionic (13–22%), non-ionic, dialyzable (4–8%), and non-ionic, non-dialyzable
(< 1.3–4.4%) forms were also detected for all metals except Cd. The corresponding concentrations
lay in the ranges: cationic, 0.06–0.99; anionic, < 0.001–0.25; non-ionic, dialyzable, < 0.001–0.08;
non-ionic, non-dialyzable, < 0.001–0.06 µg ml−1
. The existence of the metals in non-ionic and nondialyzable forms is attributable to metal associations with high relative molecular mass (RMM)
organic matters.
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Heavy metals, Speciation;, Dialysis;, Ion-exchange;, Lake Victoria, Atomic absorption spectrophotometry