Mercury Determination: A Hair Raising Experiment
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006), Research Articles
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2006)

Mercury Determination: A Hair Raising Experiment

Research Articles
https://doi.org/10.26443/msurj.v1i1.149
Published 2006-04-30
David Duford
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Josiane P. Lafleur
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Rebecca Lam
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Cameron D. Skinner
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University
Eric D. Salin
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
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Keywords

Mercury
Human hair
Induction heating electrothermal vaporization
Gold amalgamation
Atomic absorption

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Duford, D., Lafleur, J. P. ., Lam, R., Skinner, C. D., & Salin, E. D. (2006). Mercury Determination: A Hair Raising Experiment. McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal, 1(1), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.26443/msurj.v1i1.149
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Abstract

A novel, fast, low-cost portable system for the total analysis of mercury (Hg) in human hair is presented by induction heating-electrothermal vaporization, gold amalgamation, atomic absorption spectrometry (IH-ETV-GA-AAS). Using this innovative technique a detection limit of 1 ng (or 1.5 mg/g based on a 0.6 mg sample) was achieved.

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