A comparison of four personal sampling methods for the determination of mercury vapor.

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• Personal Author:
  Edwards SL ; Hull, R. DeLon ; McCammon CS Jr. ; Woodfin, William J.
• Description:
  Four methods currently in use for the determination of personal exposure to mercury (7439976) vapor were compared. The four methods tested included the 3M passive Mercury Vapor Monitoring System, the tandem mercury sampling tube method developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, the hopcalite tube method, and the iodine impregnated charcoal tube method. Each of the four sampling devices was exposed simultaneously to the same mercury vapor containing atmosphere at nominal mercury vapor concentrations of 0.05, 0.1 or sampling devices were described. At a mercury concentration of the Los Alamos procedure and the iodine charcoal method showed significant differences, but no other means compared two at a time were significantly different. At high mercury concentrations there were no significant differences between any of the means derived by the four procedures. The iodine charcoal tube method provided acceptable precision only at higher loadings of about 3 micrograms of mercury per tube. Of the four methods tested, all but the iodine charcoal tube method were demonstrated to give precise and reproducible mercury concentration determinations in the 0.05 to 0.2 mg/m3 range. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Mercury Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-monitoring Air-sampling-equipment Analytical-instruments Equipment-reliability Measurement-equipment Mercury-vapors Monitoring-systems NIOSH-Author
• ISSN:
  0002-8894
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00170679
• Citation:
  Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1980 Jul; 41(7):528-531
• Contact Point Address:
  Charles S. McCammon, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation, and Field Studies, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
• CAS Registry Number:
  Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185223/cdc_185223_DS1.pdf
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