Development of a fully integrated microdistillation flow injection system for the determination of trace level ammonia

Laboratory Automation and Information Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-206

  Chow, C W K ^a   Lane, R ^a   Yeow, T C W ^a   Davey, D E ^a   Mulcahy, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ammonia analysis; Ammonia ion selective electrode; Flow injection analysis; Microstill pre concentration; Simplex optimisation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; DRUG DETERMINATION; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GAS DIFFUSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACE METAL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031727408     PISSN: 1381141X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1381-141X(98)80005-1     Document Type: Article

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