title: Improved cold-vapor atomic absorption technique for the microdetermination of total and inorganic mercury in biological samples.
abstract: An improved technique for the determination of inorganic and total mercury in human blood, hair, urine and tissue samples by the Magos methods, based on the use of a new reaction vessel, is described. With this vessel, the sample throughput is tripled, the amount of sample and concomitant reagents required are reduced by a factor of five, the precision, accuracy and sensitivity are measurably improved and the technique in amenable to automation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism; D006197:Hair / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008628:Mercury / Q000032:analysis*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D008628:Mercury