Basic Concepts and Instrumentation for Plasma Spectrometry

Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry and its Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 61-97

  Hill, Steve J ^a   Fisher, Andrew ^a   Foulkes, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial systems; Electromagnetic radiation; ICP atomic emission; Instrumental LOD; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949118578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988794.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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