Sources of systematic errors in mercury speciation using Grignard reagents and capillary gas chromatography coupled to atomic spectrometry

Chemosphere

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1137-1152

  Emteborg, Håkan ^a   Snell, James ^b   Qian, Jin ^b   Frech, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Derivatisation; Grignard reagents; Interferences; Methylmercury; Methylmercury iodide; Speciation; Transalkylation

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; IODIDE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; REAGENT;

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERROR; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0033197950     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00183-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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