A review of tungsten coil electrothermal vaporization as a sample introduction technique in atomic spectrometry

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 624-635

  Hanna, Summer N ^a   Jones, Bradley T ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic absorption; atomic emission; atomic florescene; electrothermal vaporization; tungsten coil

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION; ATOMIC EMISSION; ATOMIC FLORESCENE; ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION; TUNGSTEN COIL;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

VAPORIZATION;

EID: 84856870306     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704928.2011.582659     Document Type: Review

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