Influence of sediment preservation on total mercury and methylmercury analyses

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 107, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 277-288

  Muhaya, Bamba B M ^a   Leermakers, Martine ^a   Baeyens, Willy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Freezing; Lyophilisation; Mercury; Methylmercury; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; DISTILLATION; ESTUARIES; FREEZING; ION EXCHANGE; MERCURY (METAL); RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROMETRY;

COLD VAPOR ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY (CVAAS); COLD VAPOR ATOMIC FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY (CVAFS); LYOPHILIZATION; METHYLMERCURY; SEDIMENT PRESERVATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FREEZE DRYING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032192702     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019886606856     Document Type: Article

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