Direct injection high efficiency nebulizer-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for analysis of petroleum samples

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 397-413

  Kahen, Kaveh ^a   Strubinger, Adelitza ^a,b   Chirinos, José R ^a,c   Montaser, Akbar ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

DIHEN; Flow injection analysis; ICPMS; Organic solvents; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IONS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037474857     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00261-6     Document Type: Article

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