The determination of mercury by non-flame atomic absorption and fluorescence spectrometry

Mercury Analysis of Acid- and Alkaline-Reduced Biological Samples: Identification of meta -Cinnabar as the Major Biotransformed Compound in Algae

“…A saturated aqueous solution of Na 2 S was added dropwise to a reaction vessel containing ␤-HgS and 6 ml of 10% aqueous SnCl 2 . Acid was omitted, and bubbling with N 2 avoided the reaction of Na 2 S with CO 2 in air, either of which could evolve large enough amounts of H 2 S to interfere with the Hg absorption line (54).…”

Analytical Chemistry of Element Determination (Non‐Nuclear and Nuclear)

“…Combinations of GC and HPLC with both MIPAES and ICPAES are covered and SFC (supercritical fluid chromatographic) and FFF (field flow fractionation) are also considered. Mercury is the subject of treatments by Ure (1975) (The determination of mercury by nonflame atomic absorption and fluorescence spectrometry), and by Morita et al (1998) presenting an excellent and almost comprehensive review by a committee of the variety of methods used to determine Hg and Hg species in environmental and biological samples.…”

“…Over the past two or three decades, the most commonly applied decomposition procedures for foods and related biological materials have been conventional wet ashing (digestion) and dry ashing, with increased current interest in microwaveassisted wet digestion and slurry preparation. Subsets of these and other techniques used for specific applications, of more limited applicability and used more sporadically include: no treatment or direct use of liquid Ihnat (2003); based on the classification scheme of Sansoni and Panday (1983) with additions from their text and other sources: (Bock 1979, Laporte et al 1975, Ihnat 2000b, Taylor et al 1997, Lamble and Hill 1998, de Bono and Velosa 1991Van Loon 1985, Williams 1978, Baruthio et al 1988, Smith and Arsenault 1996, Ure et al 1988, Gorsuch 1967, Koch and Koch-Dedic 1964, Joslyn 1970, Tölg 1983, Bendicho and de Loos-Vollebregt 1991, Hoenig 2001, Jacobs 1978, Carey and Caruso 1992, FAO 1980, Krause et al 1995, Gorsuch 1965, Langmyhr and Wibetoe 1985, Dunlop 1961, Gorsuch 1959, Gustin and Ogg 1965, Stoeppler 1997a, Totland et al 1992, Burguera and Burguera 1998a, Ure 1975, DeMenna 1994, Shamberger 1983, Watson 1994, Boyer and Horwitz 1986, Olson et al 1973, M...…”

In vitro studies on dissolved substance of cinnabar: Chemical species and biological properties

“…The collected samples were dried at 65 • C and digested with high-purity concentrated nitric acid. The content of mercury was then determined by atomic fluorescence spectrophotometry (AFS) as described (Ure, 1975;Winfield et al, 1994;SandborghEnglund et al, 1998).…”