Dan Hawk - 2007 Great Midwest Space Conference
Pollution has carried heavy metals to the boreal forests. Forest fires emit gaseous mmercury. Rocketry can be used as a remote sensing vehicle.
Dithizone, Morin, PAN, and Alizarin reagents offer inexpensive, convenient qualitative analysis of heavy metals. Rocket acceleration forces air into filtration system. Acetone -25% HNO3 is used for elution, and then sprayed with reagents. Sample results are shown below.
Rocket could be used before, during, and after a forest fire or any time monitorying of atmospheric heavy metals is desired.
