Lab-based technologies for enviro analysis - CSIR
Lab-based technologies for enviro analysis - CSIR
Lab-based technologies for enviro analysis - CSIR
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Durban capabilities, existing and planned<br />
T0064<br />
T0093<br />
Methods currently accredited:<br />
• Nutrients in fresh and sea water (ammonia, nitrate and<br />
nitrite, nitrite and orthophosphate)<br />
• Dissolved metals in sea water (cadmium, cobalt, copper,<br />
lead, iron, nickel, manganese and zinc)<br />
• Metals in sediment and biological tissues by nitric acid<br />
digestion (aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium,<br />
iron, manganese, nickel, lead, vanadium and zinc)<br />
• pH, salinity, chemical oxygen demand (COD), oxygen<br />
absorbed (OA) fluorides and TSS in water samples<br />
Planned :<br />
• Microbiological organisms in water, sea water and waste<br />
water samples<br />
• Organic chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides,<br />
pharmaceutical by-products and petroleum<br />
hydrocarbons.<br />
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