A Good Practice Guide for the Use of DGTs. Sampling of metals in transitional and coastal waters by Diffusive Gradient in Thin films (DGT) technique

doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e70983

A Good Practice Guide for the Use of DGTs. Sampling of metals in transitional and coastal waters by Diffusive Gradient in Thin films (DGT) technique

2021 · doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e70983

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This guide details best practices for using Diffusive Gradient in Thin films (DGT) to sample metals in transitional and coastal waters.

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This paper is a good-practice guide describing how to use Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (DGT) to sample metals in transitional and coastal waters, focusing on methodological considerations for applying the technique. It outlines high-level aspects of DGT deployment and sampling in these aquatic settings, aiming to standardize or improve the quality and comparability of metal measurements. The main limitation stated in the preprint context is that it is a guidance/preprint document rather than primary experimental results on a health condition. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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This good practice guide is focused on the DGT devices, which are the most widely used passive sampler for metals, covering the following aspects: ■ Principle ■ Handling passive sampling devices for metals ■ Estimation of appropriate field deployment time ■ A Good Practice Guide for the Use of DGTs ■ Passive sampling device preparation and assembly ■ Selection of sampling site and safety precautions ■ Passive sampling device deployment and retrieval ■ Extraction of analytes from passive sampling devices ■ Analysis ■ Calculations

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Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e70983 (14 Jul 2021) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e70983 (14 Jul 2021) Submitted to Research Ideas and Outcomes Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e70983 First posted 14 Jul 2021 Authors Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, Canary Islands, Spain Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, Canary Islands, Spain Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Nantes, France Fundacion AZTI (AZTI), San Sebastian, Spain Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Essex, United Kingdom Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Essex, United Kingdom Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA),, Lisbon, Portugal Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Nantes, France Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Nantes, France Fundacion AZTI (AZTI), San Sebastian, Spain University of Cagliari (UNICA), Cagliari, Italy Marine Institute (MI), Galway, Ireland Fundacion AZTI (AZTI), San Sebastian, Spain Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Nantes, France University of Cagliari (UNICA), Cagliari, Italy Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Marine Scotland Science (MSS), Aberdeen, United Kingdom Fundacion AZTI (AZTI), San Sebastian, Spain University of Cagliari (UNICA), Cagliari, Italy Blánaid White - Corresponding author Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Supporting agencies Interreg Atlantic Area This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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