Evaluation of an offline method for the analysis of atmospheric reactive gaseous mercury and particulate mercury

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-383

  Rutter, Andrew P ^a   Hanford, Katy L ^a   Zwers, Jaime T ^a   Perillo Nicholas, Anthony L ^a   Schauer, James J ^a   Olson, Mark L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RURAL AREAS; SORBENTS; THERMAL DESORPTION;

FILTER-BASED SAMPLERS; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY (RGM); SAMPLE COLLECTION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; FILTER; GAS ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL DESORPTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 41549111933     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.58.3.377     Document Type: Article

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