Determination of arsenic in seagrass using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1411-1422

  Cai, Yong ^a   Georgiadis, Myron ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MARINE BIOLOGY; NITRIC ACID; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SULFURIC ACID; VEGETATION;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMAS (ICP); INTERFERENCE EQUATION; POLYATOMIC INTERFERENCE; SEAGRASS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0034275482     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(00)00247-0     Document Type: Article

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