This study deals with the determination of total mercury concentration in the water
taken from three sites on Al-Kabeer Al-Shemaly River ( near the industrial area and Al-
Damat Lake, and 16 Tishreen Lake), also the effect of some physio-chemical p
arameters
including: DO, pH, T °C. of water in the three sites was studied.
Results showed that the total mercury concentration was low in general, where the
medium concentration in the three studied sites was 0.29 ppb and it was less than the
permission level of total mercury in the surface water(> 10 ppb), the higher value of the
medium concentration of total mercury(0.35, 0.31, 0.21)ppb was recorded in the Industrial
Area, Damat Lake, then 16 Tishreen Lake, respectively. For the changes in the total
concentration of mercury in the three studied sites during seasons of a year, was higher in
Summer comparing with other seasons. The results showed positive correlation coefficient
between the total mercury concentration and temperature, pH value, but it was negative
with DO in Summer.
This study aims to compare the results of two methods ,used to determinate arsenic in mixed and aqueous media: proposed potintiometrc titration and referenced atomic absorption and then applied the proposed method to some environmental samples.
In
this paper, Arsenic)III( has been titrated with iodine in aqueous and mixed media using the direct method and platinum electrode after choosing optimal technical and analytical conditions.
The atomic absorption, which is often used to determine the arsenic in many applications, has been chosen as comparison guide, where the reaction take place between sodium borate (NaBH4) and arsenic Acid H3AsO3 to produce the effective compound AsH3 used to determine arsenic by this instrument . Different statistical treatments were used to evaluate the result of the determination of arsenic in desired media.
The result of this investigation suggest that , it’s highly recommend to use the proposed method for its high efficiency, ease, simplicity and low cost comparing with atomic absorption technique that requires expensive equipment
