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WE have developed a method for the determination of traces of mercury, and have applied it to the tidal reaches of the River Thames. This article reports our observations of the concentrations of mercury and its partition between dissolved forms and that adsorbed on suspended particulate matter.
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SMITH, J., NICHOLSON, R. & MOORE, P. Mercury in Water of the Tidal Thames. Nature 232, 393–394 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232393b0
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