An automatic microgravimetric screening system based on piezoelectric detection and the use of acidic stannous chloride as reductant was developed for the fast detection and determination of total mercury in water. Reduced mercury is detected as an amalgam by using a gold-coated piezoelectric crystal, the sensor subsequently being regenerated by passing it through a peroxydisulfate solution. Th...

Voltammetric behavior of muscle relaxant dantrolene sodium (DAN) was studied and the voltammetric methods for its determination using polished and mercury meniscus modified silver solid amalgam electrodes (p-AgSAE and m-AgSAE) as well as using bismuth film electrode (BiFE, ex situ plating on GCE) have been proposed. These working electrodes represent the most commonly used alternatives to mercu...

Mercury (Hg) causes hazardous cumulative effects in humans; like central nervous system disorders,hypertension and chromosomal aberrations. Therefore, due to high toxicity and bioaccumulationfactor, mercury determination and speciation in human blood is very important. A sensitive,accurate, precise and inexpensive method was demonstrated for preconcentration and speciationof ultra-trace mercury...

Mercury displays a different reactivity and behaviour depending on its speciation. Determination of the mercury species present in combustion flue gases is important for proposing effective control technologies. The Ontario Hydro (OH) method is accepted as the only wet-chemical method suitable for measuring total and speciated mercury in flue gases. However, the continuous development of combus...

due to the binding of the –coo- group with the mercury (ii), gold nanoparticlesfunctionalized with glutathione can self-assemble to form a supermolecular network in the hac-naac buffer solution. the aggregation of functionalized gold nanoparticles and mercury (ii)caused the shift of maximum absorption peak of the uv-vis spectrum from 520 nm to 609 nm.based on this principle, a simple spectropho...

This paper reviews the speciation and determination of mercury by various analytical techniques such as atomic absorption spectrometry, voltammetry, inductively coupled plasma techniques, spectrophotometry, spectrofluorometry, high performance liquid chromatography, and gas chromatography. Approximately 126 research papers on the speciation and determination of mercury by various analytical tec...

the main objective of the present study is investigation of mercury bioaccumulation relation to length, weight, age and sex factors at liver of zander fish. for this purpose, in winter 2005 at western caspian sea shores (from jefroud fishery station to anzali wetland) 21 numbers zander fish were obtained and then after biometry (measuring length, age and weight) and sex determination, the mercu...

I describe a sensitive, specific, automated method for determination of mercury in urine by the "flameless atomic absorption" technique. One can analyze 20 samples per hour, with less than 0.5-ml samples of urine. The detection limit is 0.01 mumol/liter (2mug/liter) and the mean coefficient of variation 12%. The procedure is being used to monitor mercury excretion by workers exposed to mercury.

background: dental clinics are known to be one of the largest users of toxic inorganic mercury. it is well documented that dentists and dental assistants who work with amalgam are chronically exposed to mercury vapor. this study investigates exposure to mercury vapor in a dental clinic. methods: gbc cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (aas), using sodium borohydride as the reducing agent,...