Determination of mercury in environmental and biological samples using pyrolysis atomic absorption spectrometry with gold amalgamation

Costley, Claire, Mossop, Katharine, Dean, John, Garden, Louise, Marshall, John and Carroll, John (2000) Determination of mercury in environmental and biological samples using pyrolysis atomic absorption spectrometry with gold amalgamation. Analytica Chimica Acta, 405 (1-2). pp. 179-183. ISSN 0003-2670

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with a new, rapid technique for the determination of total mercury in environmental and biological samples. This technique features the pyrolysis of the sample in a combustion tube at 750°C under an oxygen atmosphere, collection on a gold amalgamator and subsequent detection by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) using a silicon UV diode detector. This technique has the advantage of no sample pre-treatment and is free from matrix interference. Eight certified reference materials (CRMs) have been analysed and were found to give results in good agreement with the certified values. The levels determined ranged from 0.035 to 7.06 mg/kg with an average relative standard deviation of 3.6% (n = 8).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Mercury, pyrolysis atomic absorption spectrometry, gold amalgamation, certified reference materials, environmental/biological samples
Subjects:	F100 Chemistry
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Applied Sciences
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2014 15:54
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 17:29
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/17403

Downloads