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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6397-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6397-2024
Research article
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06 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 06 Nov 2024

Alternate materials for the capture and quantification of gaseous oxidized mercury in the atmosphere

Livia Lown, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Seth N. Lyman, and Mae S. Gustin

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New sorbent materials are needed to preconcentrate atmospheric oxidized mercury for analysis by developing mass spectrometry methods. Chitosan, α-Al2O3, and γ-Al2O3 were tested for quantitative gaseous oxidized mercury sorption in ambient air under laboratory and field conditions. Although these materials sorbed gaseous oxidized mercury without sorbing elemental mercury in the laboratory, less oxidized mercury was recovered from these materials compared to cation exchange membranes in the field.