Determination of mercury in airborne particulate matter collected on glass fiber filters using high-resolution continuum source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry and direct solid sampling

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 378-382

  Araujo, Rennan G O ^a,b   Vignola, Fabíola ^b   Castilho, Ivan N B ^b   Borges, Daniel L G ^b,c   Welz, Bernhard ^b,c   Vale, Maria Goreti R ^c,d   Smichowski, Patricia ^e   Ferreira, Sérgio L C ^c   Becker Ross, Helmut ^f  

^a Campus São Cristovão   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne particulate matter; Direct solid sampling analysis; Glass fiber filter; HR CS GF AAS; Mercury determination

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTERS; DIRECT SOLID SAMPLING ANALYSIS; GLASS FIBER FILTER; HR-CS GF AAS; MERCURY DETERMINATION;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ELECTRIC COILS; GLASS FIBERS; GRAPHITE; MERCURY (METAL);

AIR FILTERS;

EID: 79960239408     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2011.05.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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