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Mercury concentrations in open‐ocean waters: Sampling procedure 1
Author(s) -
Fitzgerald William F.,
Lyons W. Berry
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1975.20.3.0468
Subject(s) - seawater , mercury (programming language) , oceanography , environmental science , open sea , environmental chemistry , sampling (signal processing) , chemistry , geology , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , programming language
A PVC sampler was found suitable for collecting seawater samples at depth for Hg determinations. Mercury concentrations averaged 8 ± 3 ng liter −1 in surface seawater in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.