“…In a number of works, the preliminary concentration of zirconium or its complex with arsenazo III on sorbents of various types is used (Basargin et al, 2010;Ghasemi & Zolfonoun, 2010;Pourreza, Mouradzadegun & Mohammadi, 2011;Karve & Gholave, 2014). Thus, the high selectivity of zirconium determination against the background of 10 3 -10 4 -fold mass excesses of many transition, alkaline, alkaline-earth, and rare-earth metals is demonstrated after its concentration on the polymeric chelate sorbent -polystyrene-2-hydroxy-(azo-1)-2′hydroxy-3′,5′-dinitrobenzene (Basargin et al 2010). In the work of Ghasemi and Zolfonoun (2010), the detection limit of zirconium was 0.48 μg•l −1 when using the ion-exchange resin Amberlite XAD-2000 for the concentration treated with α-benzoinoxime, but the selectivity was not as high as in the previous procedure -copper and iron (III) influence the determination of zirconium at 50-fold excess.…”