Metals in sediments

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Microwave digestion Sample heated with acids using microwaves under controlled temperature and pressure Metals in organic/inorganic solid samples (e.g. metals in sediments)... 

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The content of heavy metals in sediments was determined by sample digestion with 10 ml of the mixture of HCI04, HCI, HN03 and HF at 200°C, followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometry (ICP) (ACME, 2003). 

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Donkor, A.E., Bonzongo, J.-C.J., Nartey, V.K. and Adotey, D.K. (2005) Heavy metals in sediments of the gold mining impacted Pra River Basin, Ghana, West Africa. Soil and Sediment Contamination, 14, 479-503. 

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Table 6.18. Laboratory analysis of the concentrations of heavy metals in sediments and in water measured in July 1996 during the American-Russian hydrophysical expedition (Krapivin et al., 1998). Places of sampling are marked in the map in Figure 6.12. Measurement error did not exceed one sigma.

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Martin, R., Sanchez, D.M. and Gutierrez, A.M. (1998) Sequential extraction of U, Th, Ce, La and some heavy metals in sediments from Ortigas river, Spain. Talanta, 46, 111 5-1121. 

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