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bottle CHAPTER A5. (Version 2.2, 9/2004)
PROCESSING OF WATER SAMPLES

Cover/Title Page
Back of Title Page
Foreword

Abstract
Introduction

 

A5

Processing of water samples
Franceska D. Wilde, Dean B. Radtke, Jacob Gibs, and Rick T. Iwatsubo, editors

 
5.0

General information
D.B. Radtke and F.D. Wilde

 
5.1

Raw samples
D.B. Radtke, A.J. Horowitz, J. Gibs, and F.D. Wilde

 
5.2

Filtered samples
D.B. Radtke, A.J. Horowitz, and M.W. Sandstrom

 
5.3

Solid-phase extraction of pesticides
M.W. Sandstrom

 

5.4

Sample preservation
D.B. Radtke

 

5.5

Handling and shipping of samples
D.B. Radtke

 

5.6 Summary of sample-collection and sample-processing procedures for specific analytes
F.D. Wilde and Jacob Gibs
*Section 5.6.1.C, Phenols, has been revised in this section to create version 2.1 of chap. A5.
*New section. View new section 5.6.1.F, "Wastewater, Pharmaceutical, and Antibiotic Compounds" (pdf)
*New section. View new section 5.6.4.A, "Arsenic Speciation" (pdf)
*New section. View new section 5.6.4.B, "Low-level Mercury" (pdf)

 

Conversion factors, selected terms, abbreviations, and chemical symbols and formulas

Selected references and internal documents

Publications on Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations

Appendix

Appendix A5-A. Sample-designation codes and a summary of field-processing requirements for analyses of organic compounds in water

Appendix A5-B. Sample-designation codes and a summary of field-processing requirements for analyses of inorganic constituents in water

Appendix A5-C. Sample-designation codes and a summary of field-processing requirements for analyses of stable isotopes and radiochemicals in water

Appendix A5-D. Procedures for processing samples for analysis of dissolved and suspended organic carbon using a silver filter and gas-pressurized filtration apparatus (Note: Appendix A5-D has been added to Chapter A5, Version 2 (4/02) and contains the text for the Version 1 section 5.2.2.C.)

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A new section, 5.6.4.B, "Low-level Mercury" (version 1.0 dated 10/2004) was added to this web page on Oct. 26, 2004.