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Chlorine bleaches: A significant long term source of mercury pollution

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Products of industrial electrolysis of brine — NaOCl-based bleaches and NaOH — yielded 17 to 1290 ppb of Hg upon flameless atomic absorption analysis. Compared with current U.S. rejection value of 5 ppb for potable waters, the above levels seem sufficiently high to be a matter of environmental concern.

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  1. Dept. of Botany, Environmental Center, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, H.I., U.S.A.

    Sanford M. Siegel & Alan Eshleman

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Siegel, S.M., Eshleman, A. Chlorine bleaches: A significant long term source of mercury pollution. Water Air Soil Pollut 4, 461–463 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280729

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