Organic, inorganic and total mercury determination in fish by chemical vapor generation with collection on a gold gauze and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 513-519

  Duarte, Fábio Andrei ^a   Bizzi, Cezar Augusto ^a   Antes, Fabiane Goldschmidt ^a   Dressler, Valderi Luiz ^a   Flores, Érico Marlon de Moraes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor generation; Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry; Fish analysis; Mercury determination; Selective extraction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR GENERATION; ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; FISH ANALYSIS; MERCURY DETERMINATION; SELECTIVE EXTRACTION;

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIZATION; ATOMS; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; FISH; GOLD; GRAPHITE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEATS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; POTASSIUM; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; VAPORS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 67651102639     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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