
99% sodium tungstate’s impurities may be determined using lanthanum hydroxide as coprecipitation agent by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES method) after coprecipitation separation and concentration of these impurities. These trace metal impurities are calcium, tin, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, zinc, and nickel, etc. The determination of trace metal impurities must be performed on a high resolution spectrometer if the ICP-AES method is adopted directly. That is because the matrix tungsten often has severe spectral overlap interference with the…