Speciation Analysis of Mercury in Aquatic Environment

Abstract This review considers methods for mercury speciation with low limits of detection that can be applied to real aquatic environmental samples (waters, sediments, biological tissues). Special attention is given to the necessity of clean sampling procedures and the proper storage of the samples. In this review, different extraction techniques for sediments and biological tissues are considered. The performance of different separation techniques, like liquid chromatography and off‐line and on‐line gas chromatography, are compared for their environmental applications.

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