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Extraction of gold and mercury from sea water with bismuth diethyldithiocarbamate prior to neutron activation—γ-spectrometry

✍ Scribed by J.C. Yu; J.M. Lo; C.M. Wai


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
390 KB
Volume
154
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-2670

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✦ Synopsis


Gold and mercury in sea water can be selectively extracted by bismuth diethyldithiocarbamate into chloroform at pH <l. The matrix species and many other trace elements in the system are effectively removed durmg extraction.

When neutron activationy-spectrometry is used, the detection limits for gold and mercury are 0.001 and 0.01 ccg l-i, respectively

The relative precision is 9% for gold and 13% for mercury.