Determination of total mercury in soil and sediment by aquaregia digestion in a water bath coupled with cold vapor atom flourescence spectrometry

Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 140-143

  Li, Zhong Gen ^a,b   Feng, Xin Bin ^a   He, Tian Rong ^a,b   Yan, Hai Yu ^a,b   Liang, Lian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Cebam Analytical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua regia; CVAFS; Mercury; Sediment; Soil; Water bath

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEDIMENT; SOIL;

EID: 21744442321     PISSN: 10072802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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