Comparison of the adsorbed mercury screening method with cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometry for determination of mercury in soil

Analytical Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1665-1689

  Easterling, Donald F ^a   Hovanitz, Edward S ^a   Street, Kenneth W ^b  

^a SAIC   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption; Gold Films; Jerome Gold Film Detection; Mercury; Mercury Vapor Analyzer; Soil Samples

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; DESORPTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; SOIL POLLUTION; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034076412     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032710008543153     Document Type: Article

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