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Title: | Molecular fluorescence analysis of rainwater: effects of sample preservation |
Author: | Santos, Patrícia S. M. Otero, Marta Santos, Eduarda B. H. Duarte, Armando C. |
Keywords: | Rainwater Fluorescence spectroscopy Dissolved organic matter Sample preservation |
Issue Date: | 15-Sep-2010 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | Very different filtration and preservation procedures may be found in the literature on the study of the rainwater dissolved organic fraction. Thus, the influence of sample filtration and preservation procedures on the fluorescence of rainwater dissolved organic matter (DOM) was studied in this work. Rainwater was filtered through different filters (quartz 0.22 microm or PVDF 0.45 microm) and excitation (lambda(em)=415 nm) and synchronous (Deltalambda=70 nm) fluorescence spectra were obtained at the same day of collection, or after preservation by refrigeration (1-7 days) or by freezing (1-4 weeks). The excitation-emission matrix (EEM) spectra of rainwater showed six types of fluorescent bands: two corresponding to humic-like bands, and four resembling proteins. Then, the excitation and synchronous spectra were chosen in order to monitor changes in the humic-like and protein-like bands, respectively. The filtration procedures adopted in this work did not affect the fluorescence properties of the rainwater samples. However, these properties were differently preserved by refrigeration or freezing: after refrigeration, filtered rainwater maintained the original fluorescent properties for at least 4 days, while after freezing fluorescent properties were not always preserved since it occurred a decrease of protein-like fluorescence intensity. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/28641 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.talanta.2010.07.048 |
ISSN: | 0039-9140 |
Appears in Collections: | CESAM - Artigos DQ - Artigos |
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