Sensitivity enhancement for slotted quartz tube flame atomic absorption spectrometry using a gas screen

Analytical Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2513-2520

  Gholami, Mehrdad ^a   Farjoud, Mohammad Javad ^a   Sepehri, Masoud ^a   Nazari, Ammar ^a   Gholami, Majid ^a   Behkami, Shima ^a   Ataman, Osman Yavuz ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cobalt; Copper; Flame atomic absorption spectrometry; Gas screen; Lead; Manganese; Nickel; Selenium; Slotted quartz tube; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053539338     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2011.551858     Document Type: Article

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