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ANALYTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 255-260Publisher
JAPAN SOC ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.2116/analsci.18.255
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For the determination of total mercury in hair, an amount (25.0 mg) of hair sample was digested with conc. HNO3 (400 mul) at 90degreesC for 10 min in a 7-ml teflon microreaction vessel. After digestion, the pH of the acidic hair mixture was adjusted to 5.0 - 6.0 by NaOH and was then passed through a clean-up Sep-Pak C-18 cartridge. To the eluate, 2,3-dimercaptopropane-1-sulfonate (DMPS) and sodium acetate buffer (pH = 6.0) were added to form a mercury-DMPS complex. This complex was preconcentrated on two Sep-Pak C-18 cartridges in series, and each cartridge was eluted with methanol and adjusted to 2.00 ml. A portion (50 mul) was introduced into a graphite cuvette and then atomized according to a temperature program. The method detection limit (MDL, 3sigma) was 0.064 (mug g(-1)); the calibration graph was linear up to 7.52 mug g(-1). Good accuracies were obtained when testing two human hair certified reference materials (GBW 09101 and BCR-397). Six real samples were analyzed, and the recoveries were 95.8 - 98.2% with a relative standard deviation (RSD, n = 3) < 2.1%. For the determination of methylmercury (CH3Hg+), 25.0 mg of hair sample was extracted with 2.0 mol dm(-3) HCl (1.0 ml) by ultrasonicating for I h. The supernatant solution was used for CH3Hg+ analysis and the hair residue was used for the analysis of inorganic mercury (Hg2+). The MDL of CH3Hg+ was 0.068 mug g(-1); the calibration graph was linear up to 6.00 mug g(-1). Six real samples were analyzed, and the recoveries were 96.0 - 99.2% with RSD (n = 3) < 2.3%. The sum of the concentrations of CH3Hg+ and Hg2+ was very close to that of the total mercury measured with a relative error within 3.6%. The proposed method can be accurately applied to the measurement of CH3Hg+, Hg2+ and total mercury in hair samples.
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