Determination of nanomolar levels of nutrients in seawater

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Ma, Jian ^a   Adornato, Lori ^b   Byrne, Robert H ^c   Yuan, Dongxing ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Determination; Flow analysis; Liquid waveguide capillary cell; Liquid core waveguide; Measurement protocol; Nanomolar concentration; Nutrient; Seawater; Solid phase extraction; Trace nutrient

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; PHASE SEPARATION; SEAWATER; SILICATES; WAVEGUIDES;

CAPILLARY CELL; DETERMINATION; FLOW ANALYSIS; LIQUID CORE WAVEGUIDE; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; NANOMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION;

NUTRIENTS;

AMMONIA; INDOPHENOL BLUE; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHTHALALDEHYDE; SEA WATER; SILICATE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; STORAGE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84914160354     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.04.013     Document Type: Review

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