Multivessel system for cold-vapor mercury generation: Determination of mercury in hair and fish

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 153-161

  Boaventura, Geraldo R ^a   Barbosa, Antonio C ^a   East, Gaston A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry; Hair and fish analysis; Mercury determination; Mercury generation; Multivessel system for cold vapor

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SULFURIC ACID;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; VAPOR;

EID: 0030725183     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02783319     Document Type: Article

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