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The Trans Thane Creek Industrial Area (TTCIA) in New Bombay, developed as a chemical zone by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), houses a large number of major and small-scale industries which manufacture and store a number of petrochemical, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and pesticide formulations. The creek ecosystem has been monitored three times for total and methylmercury; once during the pre-and postmonsoon periods of 1994, and once during the premonsoon period of 1995. The concentration of total mercury was determined by CVAAS using SnCl, methodology for liberating vapour phase mercury. Reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) with a UV detector was used for the separation and determination of methylmercury. The efficacy of the methodology was assessed through analysis of standard reference material obtained from IAEA (tuna fish, IAEA-350).
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Pandit, G.G., Tripathi, R.M., Jha, S.K., Krishnamoorthy, T.M. (1999). Distribution of Total and Methyl Mercury in a Creek Ecosystem Near Bombay. In: Ebinghaus, R., Turner, R.R., de Lacerda, L.D., Vasiliev, O., Salomons, W. (eds) Mercury Contaminated Sites. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03754-6_30
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