Determination of essential and non-essential elements in green and black teas by FAAS and ICP OES simplified - multivariate classification of different tea products

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 122-129

  Szymczycha Madeja, Anna ^a   Welna, Maja ^a   Pohl, Pawel ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Black tea; Green tea; Linear discriminant analysis; Multi element analysis; Principal component analysis; Sample preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924418915     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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