Mercury Pollution Exploration in Latvia with High-Sensitivity Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Egils Bogans; Zanda Gavare; Anda Svagere; Rita Poikane; Jānis Skudra

doi:10.2478/v10145-011-0026-y

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Mercury Pollution Exploration in Latvia with High-Sensitivity Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 7 (2011): Issue -1 (December 2011)

By: Egils Bogans, Zanda Gavare, Anda Svagere, Rita Poikane and Jānis Skudra

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|Jan 2012

Abstract

This research presents Hg pollution measurements performed in Latvia with sensitive method using Zeeman AAS analyzer RA-915+ and necessary attachments. Air in Riga city and water samples from a number of rivers and lakes of Latvia were analyzed for presence of low-level Hg concentrations. Ombrotrophic bog peat was analyzed to get insight into long-term trends. Environment in the sites sampled is relatively clean according to the results obtained, but there are local spots of pollution.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10145-011-0026-y | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208

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Page range: 39 - 45

Published on: Jan 31, 2012

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Keywords:

Mercury in environment,

mercury monitoring,

mercury background in Latvia,

Zeeman atomic absorption spectroscopy

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