bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:12 UK GEMINI 2.3 Fluorimeter response of ruthenium based sensor to mercury ions in water and acetonitrile 2022-02-16 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 10.5285/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 doi: Fairbanks, S., Thomson, J., Martin, N. (2022). Fluorimeter response of ruthenium based sensor to mercury ions in water and acetonitrile. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 These dataset files show the calibration of a sensor for mercury (II) ions using a Fluorimeter and either HgCl2 or HgNO3. A range of different sample conditions are tested, including sensor concentrations and relative proportions of water and a methanol co-solvent (required for solubility of the probe). Also tested was the ability of acid to affect the probes sensitivity to mercury as nitric acid is needed for the stability of HgNO3 as an analyte. File names listed show the concentration of sensor and the ratio of water to methanol tested. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) data are also given these are used to validate the sensors calibration and also to monitor the levels of soluble mercury content of dental amalgam samples held at either (11⁰C or 37⁰C) in water and saliva. The supernatant of these suspensions is filtered and measured using ICP-MS to give the data as reported. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 Fairbanks, S. University of Sheffield simonfairbankswork@gmail.com author Thomson, J. University of Sheffield james.thomas@sheffield.ac.uk author Martin, N. University of Sheffield n.martin@sheffield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-559X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Martin, N. University of Sheffield n.martin@sheffield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-559X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Sheffield n.martin@sheffield.ac.uk owner Human Health and Safety theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication mercury GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Hg dental amalgam otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fairbanks, S., Thomson, J., Martin, N. (2022). Fluorimeter response of ruthenium based sensor to mercury ions in water and acetonitrile. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 English utf8 health Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bc82f15b-8db6-4398-bfec-655a1eecf2d7.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Calibration is done by measuring the luminescent response of the sensor (exciting at 500nm) to various concentrations of Hg(II). A linear relation to increasing mercury concentration can be applied to measure unknown sample concentrations. The calibration graphs from each of the raw fluorimeter data are given in the PowerPoint file. The file showing the dental clinical and amalgam samples are tested using a 1µM sensor to see whether a measurable response is seen to real mercury samples in different media (saliva, distilled water or amalgam separator supernatant).