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Cost savings comparison for direct mercury analysis

Milestone
25 Feb 2022

Many laboratories are currently using traditional techniques like CV-AAS/AFS to determine the mercury content for various matrices such as soils, sediments, fish. Determination of total mercury content using these techniques or ICP-MS requires labor-intensive and time-consuming sample preparation steps, daily calibration, and could suffer from interferences and memory effects. In this application note, direct mercury analysis techniques are compared for saving costs.

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DMA-80 Direct Mercury Analyzer

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The DMA-80 mercury determination system can analyze any matrix (solid, liquid or gas) without any pre-treatment or chemical additions in as few as 6 minutes in full compliance with EPA method 7473. With thousands of units installed, Milestone defines the benchmark for direct mercury determination a wide range of industries: environmental, food energy, cement, cosmetics, agriculture, mining and petrochemical.

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