Laser-induced thermal lens spectrometry after cloud point extraction for trace analysis of mercury in water and drug samples

Journal of Analytical Science and Technology

Table 1 Comparison of the LI-TLS and other methods of mercury determination

Determination technique	Sample volume (mL)	Solvent volume (mL)	EF^a	LDR^b(µg L^-1)	LOD^c(µg L^-1)	Reference
HG-AAS	100	-	20	0.05 to 100	0.039	Song et al. ([2006])
CV-AAS	3,000	-	150	-	0.005	Shamsipur et al. ([2005])
ICP-OES	10	0.5	18.7	0.25 to 100	0.056	Li and Hu ([2007])
Spectrophotometry	50	1	11	5.0 to 80.0	0.83	Niazi et al. ([2009])
LI-TLS	10	0.05	179	1.0 to 50.0	0.2	Present work