“…Chelex 100 (Koshima, 1986), modified silicas (Pu, Liu, Sun, & Sun, 2003;Pu, Su, Hu, Chang, & Yang, 1998), chitin (Terada & Kawamura, 1991), activated carbon (Chakrapani, Mahanta, Murty, & Gomathy, 2001;Soylak, Elci, & Dogan, 2000), microbeads (Kavakli, Ozvatan, Tuncel, & Salih, 2002), thiol cotton fiber (Yu et al, 2002), chelating fibers (Chang, Wang, & Zhao, 2003), c18 (Zhao et al, 2006), etc. have been successfully used as solid phase extraction materials for the preconcentration of gold.…”