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AS/NZS 4782.3:2014
[Current]Double-capped fluorescent lamps — Performance specifications, Part 3: Procedure for quantitative analysis of mercury present in fluorescent lamps
Specifies sample preparation and test method procedure to determine the mercury content in fluorescent lamps.
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 14
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.3 Referenced documents
1.4 Definitions
2 Test preparation, equipment and reagents
2.1 Sample identification
2.2 General preparation
2.3 Measurement equipment
2.3.1 Preparation equipment required (dependent on the method employed)
2.3.2 Reagents—Standard procedure
2.3.3 Equipment for amalgam procedures
2.3.3.1 Additional reagents for more complex amalgam procedures (see specific method required)
2.3.3.2 Other additional equipment for amalgam procedures
2.3.4 Instrument
3 Test set-up
3.1 Lamp samples
3.2 Laboratory conditions
3.3 Sample, equipment and reagent set-up
3.3.1 Lamp sample records
3.3.2 Container records
3.3.3 Acid preparation
3.3.4 Standard solutions preparation and records
3.3.5 Equipment preparation
3.4 Measuring equipment set-up
4 Procedures
4.1 General
4.2 Test methods
4.2.1 Mercury decomposition in a lamp bulb not containing amalgams without breaking up the lamp (long linear lamp types).
4.2.2 Mercury composition in a fluorescent light bulb after destruction of the bulb
4.3 Decomposition of mercury amalgams
4.3.1 Titanium amalgam
4.3.1.1 General
4.3.1.2 Decomposition of a titanium amalgam to determine the mercury
4.3.2 Amalgam pellet and amalgam mesh
4.3.2.1 General
4.3.2.2 Decomposition of amalgam pellets to determine the mercury
4.4 Samples for measurement
5 Measurement
5.1 Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrophotometry
5.1.1 Principle
5.1.2 Instrument
5.1.3 Setting of measuring conditions
5.1.4 Quantitative analysis from the ICP-OES
6 Reporting
6.1 Recording
6.2 Measurement uncertainty
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