In investigating heavy metal contents at specific areas, the method of selecting sampling points is important. A general method is, according to the law , random sampling of zigzag-form in the selected field. In this work, we studied whether the measured values obtained from a certain method of selecting sampling points is a representative of heavy metal contents in the selected field or not. The selected field for this study is located on the lower Yangsan-river; Gasan-li, Mulgum-myon, Yangsan-gun, KyoungNam. 1 km away from the main stream of Nakdong river. The heavy metals investigated were Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn. The inductively coupled plasma(ICP) atomic emission spectrometer was used to measure these metals quantitatively. The number of total sampling points were 24. We compared the total mean values with the mean obtained from various methods of selecting sampling points.

• 박광재(부산대학교 화학과) | Kwang-Jae Park (Dept. of Chemistry, Pusan National Universiity)
• 문병철(부산대학교 화학과) | Byung-Chul Moon (Dept. of Chemistry, Pusan National Universiity)
• 송현정(부산대학교 화학과) | Hyun-Jung Song (Dept. of Chemistry, Pusan National Universiity)
• 정종학(부산대학교 화학과) | Jong-Hak Jeong (Dept. of Chemistry, Pusan National Universiity)
• 정기호(부산대학교 화학과) | Gi-Ho Jeong (Dept. of Chemistry, Pusan National Universiity)