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Interlaboratory quality control study no. 9 : copper, cadmium, aluminium, stontium and mercury / D.J. McGirr and R.W. Wales.: En36-508/34E-PDF

"Twenty-six laboratories participated in a quality control study on the determination of copper, cadmium, aluminum, strontium and mercury in water. Copper and cadmium are determined frequently by most participants in this study, and results for these two metals were satisfactory as for a previous study using standard atomic absorption techniques. Precision for aluminum was fair, with a non-zero blank reading, likely picked up from the glassware. Most participants determine aluminum rarely; some had switched methods recently. Satisfactory results for strontium were obtained by seven laboratories using atomic absorption and by five laboratories using flame emission spectroscopy. The automated method used by the Water Quality Branch (WQB) demonstrated greatly improved precision and accuracy for mercury compared to a previous study, whereas the variety of manual methods used produced many outliers"--Abstract, page v.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Environment Canada.
  • Canada. Inland Waters Directorate.
TitleInterlaboratory quality control study no. 9 : copper, cadmium, aluminium, stontium and mercury / D.J. McGirr and R.W. Wales.
Series title
  • Report series ; no. 34
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Some pages blank and unnumbered in original print edition and omitted in this copy.
  • Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 4).
  • Issued also in print format.
  • Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information
  • Burlington, Ontario : Inland Waters Directorate, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 1975.
  • ©1975
Author / Contributor
  • McGirr, D. J., author.
Description1 online resource (v, 15 pages).
Catalogue number
  • En36-508/34E-PDF
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