Table 5. Mercury Loadings and Mass Ratios of Coupled Adsorption and Desorption Experiments with 6 and 0.6 g Activated Carbon.

		loading [μg g–1]
activated carbon	mass [g]	ads. Hg0	CSA Hg0	TPD Hg0	TPD Hgtotal	mass ratio Hg0	mass ratio Hgtotal
AC 01–1 M HCl	0.6	48.069	0.081	37.440	46.697	0.78	0.97
	6	5.194	0.053	3.754	4.825	0.73	0.94
AC 02–1 M HCl	0.6	38.888	0.181	30.966	36.903	0.80	0.95
	6	5.447	0.003	3.482	5.171	0.64	0.95