A Rapid Method for Mercury Determination in Urine of Workers Exposed to Mercury Vapor
作者:
Odair Zenebon,
Alice M. Sakuma,
Franca D. de Maio,
Isaura A. Okada,
Jaim Lichtig,
期刊:
Analytical Letters
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 32,
issue 7
页码: 1339-1349
ISSN:0003-2719
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/00032719908542901
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Mercury;human urine;flow-injection;atomic absorption spectrometry.
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
It is shown that the urine from workers exposed to mercury vapor contains practically only inorganic mercury (II), which can be easily determined by flow injection cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry after adding only HNO3to the urine at room temperature. If organic mercury is suspected to be present, the sample is treated with KMnO4/H2SO4at 80°C - 100°C and total mercury is determined. On using HNO3only, 30 - 40 urine samples/h can be easily processed. The method presents good accuracy, precision and high sensitivity, achieving a limit of detection and a limit of quantification (L.O.Q), respectively, of 0.12 mg/L and 0.4 mg/L Hg (II) in the final dilution, using 1.0 mL urine. Urine reference SRM - NIST as well as samples from workers exposed to mercury vapor were analyzed by the proposed methodology.
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