%0 Journal Article %T Determination of Cu, Ni and Pb in aqueous medium by FAAS after pre-concentration on 2-aminothiazole modified silica gel %A Alcantara %A Ilton Luiz de %A Roldan %A Paulo dos Santos %A Margionte %A Maur¨ªcio A. L. %A Castro %A Gustavo R. %A Padilha %A Cilene C. F. %A Florentino %A Ariovaldo de Oliveira %A Padilha %A Pedro de Magalh£¿es %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2004 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨ªmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532004000300005 %X this work describes the synthesis and characterization of 2-aminothiazole modified silica gel (siat), and the results of a study of the adsorption and pre-concentration (in batch and using a flow-injection system coupled to an absorption atomic spectrometer) of cu(ii), ni(ii) and pb(ii) in aqueous medium. the adsorption capacities for each metal ions in mmol g-1 were: cu(ii)= 1.18, ni(ii)= 1.15 and pb(ii)= 1.10. the results obtained in the flow experiments showed a recovery of practically 100% of the metal ions adsorbed in a mini-column packed with 100 mg of siat, using 100 ¦Ìl of 2.0 mol l-1 hcl solution as eluent. the sorption-desorption of the metal ions made possible the application of a flow-injection system for the pre-concentration and quantification by faas of metal ions at trace level in natural water samples digested and not digest by an oxidizing uv photolysis. %K pre-concentration %K 2-aminothiazole modified silica gel %K water samples %K faas. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532004000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en