High-resolution continuum source electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry - An analytical and diagnostic tool for trace analysis

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 873-883

  Welz, Bernhard ^a,b   Borges, Daniel L G ^b   Lepri, Fábio G ^b   Vale, Maria Goreti R ^c   Heitmann, Uwe ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

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

^d ISAS INSTITUTE FOR ANALYTICAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background correction; Crude oil analysis; Electrothermal atomization; High resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry; Multielement determination; Solid sampling analysis

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; ERROR CORRECTION; RESONANCE; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRACE ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

AQUEOUS STANDARDS; ATOMIC PHOSPHORUS; HIGH-RESOLUTION CONTINUUM; SPECTRAL ENVIRONMENTS;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 34548628772     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.03.009     Document Type: Review

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