Determination of iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, zinc, copper, cadmium and lead in human hair by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1333-1338

  Sreenivasa Rao, K ^a   Balaji, T ^a   Prasada Rao, T ^b   Babu, Y ^c   Naidu, G R K ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

^c BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Digestion; Human hair; ICP AES; Reference materials; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NITRIC ACID; SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0036667217     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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