The behaviour of leached aluminium in tea infusions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 177, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 9-16

  Zhou, Chao Yan ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Chi, Hua ^a   Wong, Ming Keong ^a   Koh, Lip Lin ^a   Wee, Yeow Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

aluminium; graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry; high performance liquid chromatography; tea and tea infusion

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CAMELIA SINENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEACHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TEA;

EID: 0030039056     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04854-5     Document Type: Article

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