RECOVERY OF SOME CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON AND ORGANOPHOSPHOROUS PESTICIDES ON WET AND DRY ALUMINA COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPH

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Central Agricultural Pesticides Laboratory, Agricultural Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

The effect of drying and wetting of the deactivated (6% mosi­ture) aluminium oxide column using n-hexane or benzene as eluting sol­vent was investigated in order to evaluate recovery rates of cetain hy­drocarbon and organophosphorus pesticides. The dry aluminium oxide column showed the best recovery values for chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides when eluted with n-hexane or benzene. The wet aluminium oxide column gave the best recovery values for organophosphorous pesticides when eluted with benzene. The dry al­uminium oxide column also gave satisfactory recovery values for most of the tested organophosporous pesticides when benzene was used as an eluting solvent.