Intercomparison of methods for sampling and analysis of atmospheric mercury species

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2001-06-01

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Munthe, John
Wangberg, Il
Pirrone, Nicola
Tuncel, Süleyman Gürdal
Iverfield, Adam
Ferrara, Ricardo
Ebinghouse, Rene

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An intercomparison for sampling and analysis of atmospheric mercury species was held in Tuscany, June 1998. Methods for sampling and analysis of total gaseous mercury (TGM), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM) and total particulate mercury (TPM) were used in parallel sampling over a period of 4 days. The results show that the different methods employed for TGM compared well whereas RGM and TPM showed a somewhat higher variability. Measurement results of RGM and TPM improved over the time period indicating that activities at the sampling site during set-up and initial sampling affected the results. Especially the TPM measurement results were affected. Additional parallel sampling was performed for two of the TPM methods under more controlled conditions which yielded more comparable results. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

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Speciation, Atmosphere, Measurement, Mercury

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30487

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