Evaluation of the Memory Effect on Gold-Coated Silica Adsorption Tubes Used for the Analysis of Gaseous Mercury by Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Table 2

The experimental settings used in this study and a previous study (Brown et al., 2011 [14]).

Order	Parameters	This study	Brown et al. [14]
1	Analyzer	Mercury Analyzer, WA-4 (NIC, Japan)	10.525 Sir Galahad analyzer
2	Place of analysis	Atmospheric Environmental Laboratory, Sejong University.	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK.
3	Detector	Cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS)	Atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS)
4	Gold-coated sand	Brooks Rand Labs (part number: 03115)	Amasil, PS Analytical, UK
5	Calibration software	Integrated with WA-4 analyzer	NPL’s XLGENLINE
6	Used mercury in Exp.	5 to 50 ng	5 to 50 ng
7	Standard gas box	Standard gas box (MB-1), NIC, Japan.	Bell-jar calibration vessel (PS Analytical, part number: G523V002)