The invention provides a method for determining the content of
precious metal elements in an automobile purification catalyst, and belongs to the technical field of analysis and detection. According to the method, a composite melting
system composed of
sodium peroxide,
anhydrous sodium metaborate and
sodium tungstate is constructed, an automobile purification catalyst sample is subjected to efficient melting
decomposition, complete leaching of a melt is achieved in combination with a
hydrochloric acid and
tartaric acid composite acidification
system, a
tin-
tellurium coprecipitation enrichment technology is introduced on the basis, and the purity of the automobile purification catalyst sample is improved. Trace
precious metal elements such as
platinum,
palladium and
rhodium are selectively precipitated and effectively enriched, and matrix interference is remarkably reduced; and then adding an
indium internal standard solution and carrying out
quantitative determination by adopting
inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry, thereby realizing high-sensitivity and high-accuracy analysis of the
noble metal element. The method effectively solves the problems of incomplete sample
decomposition, low
precious metal recovery rate, serious matrix interference, poor detection result stability and the like in the prior art.