Elemental mercury vapour in air: The origins and validation of the 'Dumarey equation' describing the mass concentration at saturation

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 409-414

  Dumarey, Ronny ^a   Brown, Richard J C ^b   Corns, Warren T ^c   Brown, Andrew S ^b   Stockwell, Peter B ^c  

^a ArcelorMittal Gent   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c P S Analytical Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic spectrometry; Dumarey equation; Mercury vapour; Saturated mass concentration; Vapour pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954242573     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-010-0645-1     Document Type: Article

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