Open AccessEvaluation of Major and Trace Elements Present in Extracted Humic Acid from Bog Peat
Author(s) -
Katalin Gméling,
Tünde Kocsis,
János Osán,
Zoltán Kis,
Mihály András Pocsai,
K. Tőkési,
Imre Ferenc Barna,
Gy. Padi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian journal of chemical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-7795
DOI - 10.9734/ajocs/2021/v10i419102
Subject(s) - peat , humic acid , neutron activation analysis , table (database) , trace (psycholinguistics) , bog , fluorescence , environmental chemistry , neutron activation , spectral line , chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , neutron , radiochemistry , physics , nuclear physics , ecology , organic chemistry , optics , computer science , biology , fertilizer , linguistics , philosophy , astronomy , data mining
The human consumption of humic acid is increasingly relevant therefore the knowledge of exact composition is essential. To make a step in that direction we present gap filling results obtained from three different element analytical investigations of humic acid extracted from fen peat examined in the Carpathian Basin. Prompt-gamma activation (PGAA), neutron activation analytical method (NAA) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis was carried out. After presenting and explaining the essence of used analytical methods we show some collected spectra and a table where all the concentration of the iden- tified elements are presented with the corresponding measurement errors. All together 42 elements were identified. PACS.78.70.En, 78.70. Nx,78. 90.+t X-ray emission spectra and fluorescence, Neutroninelastic scattering, Other topics in optical properties, condensed matter aspect.