“…An effective separation and preconcentration procedure is usually necessary prior to determination. Various preconcentration and separation procedures including coprecipitation (Novgorodova, Generelov, Trubkin, & Ziborova, 1994;Sato & Ueda, 2000), cloud point extraction (Akita, Rovira, Satre, & Takeuchi, 1998;Wongwailikhit, Tasakorn, Prasassarakich, & Aratono, 2003), solvent extraction (Begerow, Turfeld, & Dunemann, 1997;Chowdhury & Kamata, 1997;Zhao, Wu, & Chen, 1999), ion-exchange (Lai et al, 2002) and electroanalytical methods (Komarek & Houserova, 2003) are widely used prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of gold.…”