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Practical and theoretical considerations for the determination of delta C-13(VPDB) values of methylmercury in the environment

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2019-07-15
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Goenaga-Infante, Heidi
Ogrinc, Nives
Dunn, Philip J. H.
Horvat, Milena
Tunc, Murat
Goren, AHMET CEYHAN
Simsek, Adnan
Bilsel, Mine
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Rationale Analytical methods that can identify the source and fate of mercury and organomercury compounds are likely to be useful tools to investigate mercury in the environment. Carbon isotope ratio analysis of methylmercury (MeHg) together with mercury isotope ratios may offer a robust tool to study environmental cycling of organomercury compounds within fish tissues and other matrices. Methods MeHg carbon isotope ratios were determined by gas chromatography/combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/C-IRMS) either directly or following derivatization using sodium tetraethylborate. The effects of a normalization protocol and of derivatization on the measurement uncertainty of the methylmercury delta C-13(VPDB) values were investigated. Results GC/C-IRMS analysis resulted in a delta C-13(VPDB) value for an in-house MeHg reference material of delta C-13(VPDB) = -68.3 +/- 7.7 parts per thousand (combined standard uncertainty, k = 1). This agreed very well with the value obtained by offline flow-injection analysis/chemical oxidation/isotope ratio mass spectrometry of delta C-13(VPDB) = -68.85 +/- 0.17 parts per thousand (combined standard uncertainty, k = 1) although the uncertainty was substantially larger. The minimum amount of MeHg required for analysis was determined to be 20 mu g. Conclusions While the delta C-13(VPDB) values of MeHg can be obtained by GC/C-IRMS methods with or without derivatization, the low abundance of MeHg precludes such analyses in fish tissues unless there is substantial MeHg contamination. Environmental samples with sufficient MeHg pollution can be studied using these methods provided that the MeHg can be quantitatively extracted. The more general findings from this study regarding derivatization protocol implementation within an autosampler vial as well as measurement uncertainty associated with derivatization, normalization to reporting scales and integration are applicable to other GC/C-IRMS-based measurements.
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Dunn P. J. H. , Bilsel M., Simsek A., Goren A. C. , Tunc M., Ogrinc N., Horvat M., Goenaga-Infante H., -Practical and theoretical considerations for the determination of delta C-13(VPDB) values of methylmercury in the environment-, RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, cilt.33, ss.1122-1136, 2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12645/10267
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