Can I use Gold Chloride when avoiding mercury memory effects when doing ICP-MS analysis?

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  Tina Harville over 2 years ago +1 suggested

  Yes Gold helps with keeping Hg in solution and its wash out.

   

  HCl also helps with wash out and keeping Hg in solution
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  Tina Harville over 2 years ago in reply to mivuyo12 +1 suggested

  we
  use 0.5% hcl

   

  i
  use in all my rinses

   

  as
  for gold concentration i’m not exactly sure as that can vary