Issue 10, 2004
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Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Direct detection of mercury in single human hair strands by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

Melissa Legrand,a   Rebecca Lam,b   Madeleine Jensen-Fontaine,b   Eric D. Salin*b  and  Hing Man Chanac  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

b Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
E-mail: eric.salin@mcgill.ca

c Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE), McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Single shot laser ablation ICP-MS has demonstrated the potential to detect Hg in single human hairs with a resolution corresponding to less than one day of growth and with a detection limit of approximately 0.2 μg g−1.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B406733A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 May 2004
Accepted
30 Jul 2004
First published
01 Sep 2004

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2004,19, 1287-1288

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Direct detection of mercury in single human hair strands by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

M. Legrand, R. Lam, M. Jensen-Fontaine, E. D. Salin and H. Man Chan, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2004, 19, 1287 DOI: 10.1039/B406733A

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