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Comparison of digestion methods to determine heavy metals in fertilizers

Ygor Jacques Agra Bezerra da Silva, Clístenes Williams Araújo do Nascimento, Caroline Miranda Biondi, Welka Preston

01/Apr/2014

The lack of a standard method to regulate heavy metal determination in Brazilian fertilizers and the subsequent use of several digestion methods have produced variations in the results, hampering interpretation. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three digestion methods for determination of metals such as Cd, Ni, Pb, and Cr in fertilizers. Samples of 45 fertilizers marketed in northeastern Brazil were used. A fertilizer sample with heavy metal contents certified by the US National […]