Extraction and Isotope Measurement of Sulfur in Biological Samples
Extraction and Isotope Measurement of Sulfur in Biological Samples
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生物样品中硫的提取和同位素测量
DOI:
10.2116/analsci.3.157
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
A. Sasaki
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作者:
Y. Arikawa;A. Sasaki
A method to extract sulfur completely from biological samples was investigated to assist the isotopic measurement of biosulfur. A sample is burnt under a high pressure of oxygen. The sulfur trioxide formed is absorbed in water to fix it as barium sulfate, which in turn is heated with tin(II)-strong phosphoric acid (the reagent made by dissolving tin(II) chloride dihydrate in condensed orthophosphoric acid). The hydrogen sulfide formed by this procedure is further transformed into silver sulfide. The isotopic ratio is obtained in terms of δ^34S%‰ according to the conventional method, i.e., combustion of silver sulfide with copper(I) oxide, successive vacuum distillation of formed sulfur dioxide, and measurement of its isotopic ratio by a mass spectrometer. The whole procedure was carefully examined at each stage by repeated analyses of cystine and methionine as sulfur-containing samples. Preliminary applications to measure the isotopic composition of sulfur in nail and hair samples were attempted.