Passive air sampling of gaseous elemental mercury: a critical review

McLagan, David S.; Mazur, Maxwell E. E.; Mitchell, Carl P. J.; Wania, Frank

doi:10.5194/acp-16-3061-2016

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Passive air sampling of gaseous elemental mercury: a critical review

David S. McLagan, Maxwell E. E. Mazur, Carl P. J. Mitchell, and Frank Wania

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Short summary

For more than 20 years, scientists and engineers have tried to design simple sampling devices that can collect gaseous elemental mercury from the atmosphere without the use of a pump. A thorough review of the sampler designs that have been presented so far suggests that while some may be suitable for measuring higher air concentrations close to sources, none of them have the accuracy and precision required to record the low atmospheric mercury concentrations prevalent in background regions.