Electrothermal vaporization of mineral acid solutions in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Comparison with sample nebulization

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 959-974

  Mora, Juan ^a   Gras, Luis ^a   Van Veen, Eric H ^a   De Loos Vollebregt, Margaretha T C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; VAPORIZATION;

ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERAL ACIDS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0032677006     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(99)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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