PMID- 11227475 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20010322 LR - 20191025 IS - 0937-0633 (Print) IS - 0937-0633 (Linking) VI - 367 IP - 5 DP - 2000 Jul TI - Determination of palladium in airborne particulate matter in a German city. PG - 450-3 AB - The part of palladium in ambient urban air that is bound to particles and soluble in aqua regia was determined by means of sorbent extraction, coupled with graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS) and laser absorption fluorescence spectrometry (LAFS). Samples of about 200 m3 air were taken in a suburb of Berlin, Germany. The coupling of the selective and automated pre-concentration procedure for Pd as N,N-diethyl-N'-benzoylthiourea complex with the respective detection methods proved to be sufficiently sensitive. Severe interference with other matrix constituents, occurring mainly by direct LAFS detection, could be overcome and the detection limit was improved tremendously. The concentration of Pd in ambient air was determined to be in the range from 0.2 to 14.6 pg/m3. FAU - Tilch, J AU - Tilch J AD - Institut fur Spektrochemie und angewandte Spektroskopie, Institutsteil Berlin, Germany. FAU - Schuster, M AU - Schuster M FAU - Schwarzer, M AU - Schwarzer M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Germany TA - Fresenius J Anal Chem JT - Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry JID - 9114077 RN - 0 (Air Pollutants) RN - 0 (Dust) RN - 0 (Solutions) RN - 5TWQ1V240M (Palladium) SB - IM MH - Air Pollutants/*analysis MH - Dust/analysis MH - Equipment Design MH - Germany MH - Palladium/*analysis MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Solutions MH - Spectrometry, Fluorescence/instrumentation/methods/standards MH - Spectrophotometry, Atomic/instrumentation/methods/standards MH - Urbanization EDAT- 2001/03/03 10:00 MHDA- 2001/03/27 10:01 CRDT- 2001/03/03 10:00 PHST- 2001/03/03 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2001/03/27 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2001/03/03 10:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s002160000380 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Fresenius J Anal Chem. 2000 Jul;367(5):450-3. doi: 10.1007/s002160000380.