BS EN 13506:2002
Water quality - Determination of mercury by atomic fluorescence spectrometry
- Standard No.
- BS EN 13506:2002
- Release Date
- 2002
- Published By
- British Standards Institution (BSI)
- Status
- 2006-06
- Replace By
- BS EN ISO 17852:2006
- Latest
- BS EN ISO 17852:2006
- Scope
- This European Standard specifies a method for the determination of mercury in drinking, surface, ground and rain water. NOTE It is permissible, that this standard is also applied to industrial and municipal waste water after an additional digestion step under appropriate conditions. The potential linear dynamic range is approximately 1 ng/l to 100 μg/l. In practice, the working range is often from 10 ng/l to 10 μg/l. Samples containing mercury at concentrations higher than the working range can be analysed following appropriate dilution of the sample. The method detection limit (MDL) will be dependent on the selected operating conditions and calibration range. With high purity reagents a MDL of less than 1 ng/l is obtainable. The relative standard deviation is typically less than 5 % for concentrations greater than twenty times the method detection limit. The sensitivity of this method is dependent on the selected operating conditions.
BS EN 13506:2002 history
- 2006 BS EN ISO 17852:2006 Water quality - Determination of mercury - Method using a combined preservation and digestion step followed by atomic fluorescence spectrometry
- 2002 BS EN 13506:2002 Water quality - Determination of mercury by atomic fluorescence spectrometry
