Sources of contamination and remedial strategies in the multi-elemental trace analysis laboratory

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 396, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 365-377

  Rodushkin, Ilia ^a,b   Engström, Emma ^b   Baxter, Douglas C ^a  

^a Sweden   (Sweden)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cleaning procedures; Contamination prevention; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

CLEANING PROCEDURES; DETECTION CAPABILITY; KEYPOINTS; MULTI-ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; REMEDIAL STRATEGIES; SAMPLE SOLUTION; STATE OF THE ART;

CONTAMINATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PHOTORESISTS; POLLUTION DETECTION; SPECTROMETRY;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 72849116654     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3087-z     Document Type: Article

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