Determination and assessments of selected heavy metals in eye shadow cosmetics from China, Italy, and USA

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-69

  Volpe, M G ^a   Nazzaro, M ^a   Coppola, R ^a   Rapuano, F ^b   Aquino, R P ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye shadows; Flame atomic absorption spectrometry; Heavy metals; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555174706     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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