Kinetic-spectrophotometric determination of sulfide by its reaction with resazurin

Abstract

A sensitive, rapid and selective method for the determination of sulfide based on its reaction with resazurin at pH 7 is described. The method is simple and has the great advantage of being free from interference of other sulfur anions and thus sulfide can be easily determined at trace levels in the presence of other sulfur compounds. The method has been applied to some synthetic samples and a spring water sample. The importance of sulfide compounds in biological processes has been widely demonstrated [1]. However, most of the methods used so far are either not sensitive enough or require complicated and expensive instruments; or are subjected to interferences from other sulfur compounds. Therefore, more sensitive, simple and selective methods are still required.