Spectral and non-spectral interferences in the determination of thallium in environmental materials using electrothermal atomization and vaporization techniques - A case study

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1821-1834

  Vale, Maria Goreti R ^a   Welz, Bernhard ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry; Electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Environmental samples; Interferences; Thallium determination

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIZATION; DEUTERIUM; DISSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FURNACES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; ISOTHERMS; PALLADIUM; PYROLYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VAPORIZATION; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIZATION (ETA); ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION (ETV);

THALLIUM;

EID: 0037010540     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00209-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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