Potential interferences generated during mercury species determination using acid leaching, aqueous ethylation, cryogenic gas chromatography and atomic spectrometry detection techniques

Chemosphere

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1119-1136

  Tseng, C M ^a   De Diego, A ^a,b   Wasserman, J C ^a,c   Amouroux, D ^a   Donard, O F X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; DIMETHYLDISILAZANE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; REAGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTIFACT; ASSAY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DERIVATIZATION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEACHING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0033197946     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00182-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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