Comparison of pneumatic and ultrasonic nebulizations in inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry - matrix effects and plasma parameters

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 579-587

  Borkowska Burnecka, Jolanta ^a   Leśniewicz, Anna ^a   Zyrnicki, Wiesław ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electron number density; Inductively coupled plasma; Matrix effects; Nebulization systems; Plasma temperature

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONIZATION; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY;

ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITY; EXCITATION TEMPERATURES; MATRIX EFFECTS; NEBULIZATION SYSTEMS; PLASMA TEMPERATURE;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

EID: 33745219851     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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