Recent developments in flow injection/sequential injection liquid-liquid extraction for atomic spectrometric determination of metals and metalloids

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-167

  Anthemidis, Aristidis N ^a   Miró, Manuel ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atomic spectrometry; Flow injection; Liquid liquid extraction; Sequential injection; Trace metal determinations

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID MEMBRANES; LIQUIDS; METAL RECOVERY; METALLOIDS; METALS; PHASE INTERFACES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY; FLOW INJECTION; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; SEQUENTIAL INJECTION; TRACE METAL DETERMINATIONS;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

EID: 60749088944     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704920802352598     Document Type: Review

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