Mercury and methylmercury in freshwater fish and sediments in south korea using newly adopted purge and trap GC-MS detection method

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 207, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 391-401

  Park, Jae Sung ^a   Lee, Jung Sub ^a   Kim, Gun Bae ^a   Cha, Jun Seok ^a   Shin, Sun Kyoung ^a   Kang, Hak Gu ^a   Hong, Eun Jin ^a   Chung, Gi Taeg ^a   Kim, Young Hee ^a  

^a National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distillation technique; Dithizone extraction; Freshwater fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Purge and Trap GC MS; Sediment

Indexed keywords

DITHIZONE; DITHIZONE EXTRACTION; FRESHWATER FISHES; METHYL MERCURY; PURGE AND TRAP; PURGE AND TRAP GC-MS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEATS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

DITHIZONE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION METHOD; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC MATTER; RESERVOIR; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRESHWATER FISH; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; SOUTH KOREA; TUNA; WATER POLLUTION;

KOREA;

SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 77249137693     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0144-3     Document Type: Article

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