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Activation analysis of mercury in biological samples

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A method has been developed for the determination of trace quantities of mercury in biological samples, in which homogeneous irradiation was achieved by introducing a rotating irradiation disk facility in the reactor pool water, and possible loss of mercury during chemical processing was reduced by using a simple procedure. This procedure involved the destruction of the sample in a reflux system with conc. HNO3 or fuming HNO3+H2O2 and subsequent isolation of mercury by spontaneous deposition on Cu sieves from dilute HNO3(0.5–1.5N). The possibility of using Au or Co as standards, instead of mercury which is easily volatile, was also evaluated.

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  1. S. R. Sunoko (I.A.E.A. Fellow)

    Present address: Nuclear Reactor Centre, Bandung, Indonesia

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  1. Institut für Radiochemie, 8046, Garching bei München, (GFR)

    J. I. Kim & S. R. Sunoko (I.A.E.A. Fellow)

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Kim, J.I., Sunoko, S.R. Activation analysis of mercury in biological samples. J. Radioanal. Chem. 16, 257–267 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02517872

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