Abstract
The applicability of a recently developed micro-attachment adaptable to common atomic-absorption spectrometers has been extended to include both cold-vapour atomic-absorption and gas-phase ultraviolet-absorption measurements. The cold-vapour atomic-absorption technique for the determination of total mercury in human whole blood and hair samples was applied by homogenizing the samples in a strongly alkaline medium and using stannous chloride-cadmium chloride mixture as reducing agent. Application of the system to the determination of volatile molecular species in aqueous solution by gas-phase ultraviolet-absorption spectrophotometry have also been studied, with NH3 as a model. This technique provides a simple, sensitive, yet selective method for the determination of ammoniacal and total nitrogen in aqueous samples and gives results comparable to those obtained by the standard distillation-titration method.
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