Aerosol generation of As and Se hydrides using a new Flow Blurring® multiple nebulizer for sample introduction in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-86

  Pereira, Catarinie D ^a   Aguirre, Miguel Ángel ^b   Nóbrega, Joaquim A ^a   Hidalgo, Montserrat ^b   Canals, Antonio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Hydride generation direct; ICP OES; Multiple nebulizer; Selenium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887002376     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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