Indirect mercury speciation in biological tissues by closed-vessel microwave-assisted digestion and flow-injection cold-vapor atomic fluorescence detection

Analytical Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2657-2669

  Nevado, J J Berzas ^a   Martín Doimeadios, R C Rodríguez ^a   Bernardo, F J Guzmán ^a   Moreno, M Jiménez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological samples; Cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry; Mercury speciation; Microwave assisted extraction; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750399793     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032710600822841     Document Type: Article

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