Determination of Total Mercury in Human Hair and Animal Fur by Combustion Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-15-2004

Publication Title

Talanta

Volume

64

Issue

4

First page number:

918

Last page number:

921

Abstract

A commercially available mercury (Hg) analyzer based on sample combustion, gold amalgamation, and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) was evaluated for the direct determination of Hg in composites of human hair and individual samples of horse fur. Results for human hair reference material (NIES No. 13) were within the certified range. Analyses of “blind” samples from an international interlaboratory (n>16) comparison study produced results within 1S.D. of the consensus means. Precision (%R.S.D.) was found to be

Keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Atomic absorption spectroscopy; Combustion; Fur; Hair – Analysis; Horse; Horsehair; Mercury

Disciplines

Community-Based Research | Medicine and Health | Toxicology

Language

English

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Publisher Citation

J.V. Cizdziel, Shawn Gerstenberger, Determination of total mercury in human hair and animal fur by combustion atomic absorption spectrometry, Talanta, Volume 64, Issue 4, 15 November 2004, Pages 918-921, ISSN 0039-9140, 10.1016/j.talanta.2004.04.013.

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