[Coral-List] Use of mercuric chloride for TA measurements
Thomas Krueger
thomas.krueger at epfl.ch
Thu Jun 29 06:50:33 EDT 2017
Hi,
I was wondering, how mandatory the use of mercuric chloride is for
storing seawater samples for later total alkalinity (TA) measurements?
There are a range of papers on coral calcification that do no explicitly
mention the use of mercuric chloride in preserving the water sample for
later analysis. For our case, the water samples were taken from
respiration chamber incubations that used 0.2 um filtered seawater, and
the samples were stored in brown, borosilicate glass containers at 4°C
for analysis of TA within 4 weeks. Do you think that the fundamental
concern that biological activity might have altered the TA results is
justified? All the used pH-values for the later CO2sys calculations were
measured directly when taking the sample and not at the time the bottle
was re-opened for the titration.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Thomas
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