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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 1;32(3):427–433. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00358-w

Table 2.

Toenail Mn and Hg measurement distribution in the welders (Mn measurements) and nail salon workers (Hg measurements) in our study.

N Group Average Standard Deviation
Mn
ICP-MS (μg/g) 16 Welders 1.1 1.00
XRF (μg/g) 16 Welders 1.8 7.0
XRF Uncertainty (μg/g) 16 Welders 2.7 2.8
Hg
ICP-MS (μg/g) 10 Nail Salon 0.92 0.4
XRF(μg/g) 10 Nail Salon 1.7 0.25
XRF Uncertainty (μg/g) 10 Nail Salon 0.44 0.39