Graphite furnace atomic absorption ETAAS

AMS = accelerated mass spectroscopy EDTA = ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid GFAAS = graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry ICP-AES = inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectroscopy NAA = neutron activation analysis ETAAS = electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry SEC/ICP-MS = size-exclusion chromatography/ICP-AES/mass spectrometry HLPC/ICP-AES = high-performance liquid chromatography/ICP-AES LAMMA = laser ablation microprobe mass analysis NA = not applicable ppq = parts per quadrillion... 

Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GFAAS) or Atomic Absorption with Electrothermal Atomisation (ETAAS)... 

Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (FAAS) Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (ETAAS) e.g. Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GFAAS) Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) Anodic Stripping Voltammetry (ASV)... 

Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) also called graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS) for the... 

Several spectroscopic methods have been used to monitor the levels of heavy metals in man, fossil fuels and environment. They include flame atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), atomic emission spectroscopy (AES), graphite furnace atomic absorption sp>ectrometry (GFAAS), inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission sp>ectroscopy (ICP/AES), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP/MS), x-ray fluorescence sp>ectroscopy (XRFS), isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS), electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) e.t.c. Also other spectroscopic methods have been used for analysis of the quality composition of the alternative fuels such as biodiesel. These include Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) e.t.c. 

Instrumental Conditions. FAA analyses for Ba, Fe, and Mn were done on a Perkin Elmer model 560 atomic absorption spectrophotometer with an air-acetylene flame for Fe and Mn and a nitrous oxide-acetylene flame for Ba (38, 39), The remaining elements were determined by ETAA with the conditions listed in the appendix (Table A-l) with a Perkin Elmer model 5000 atomic absorption spectrophotometer equipped with a model HGA-400 graphite furnace and a deuterium background corrector. The precision of FAA was 1.0% and the precision of ETAA was 10%. Absorbance readings for FAA were converted directly to concentrations by comparison with absorbance readings for standards that had been previously stored in the instrument s computer. 

Atomic absorption spectrometry, belonging to a class of techniques also defined as optical atomic spectrometry, has been for some four decades - and continues to be - one of the most important, dominant determinative techniques. It includes flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS), electrothermal atomization atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) (including graphite furnace AAS (GFAAS), carbon rod AAS, tantalum strip AAS), and gaseous generation (cold vapor AAS for Hg, hydride gener-... 

The most common analytical procedures for measuring cadmium concentrations in biological samples use the methods of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and atomic emission spectroscopy (AES). Methods of AAS commonly used for cadmium measurement are flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS) and graphite furnace (or electrothermal) atomic absorption spectroscopy (GFAAS or ETAAS). A method for the direct determination of cadmium in solid biological matrices by slurry sampling ETAAS has been described (Taylor et al., 2000). 

Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) has been the single most important technique in advancing our knowledge of the transition metal distribution in seawater. The graphite-furnace mode is used most frequently. It has the advantage of high sensitivity and therefore small sample volume (e.g., 10-50//L). Major disadvantages are the matrix interferences which usually necessitate a pre-concentration and/or a separation step (see Sections 12.2.1 and 12.2.2). Another application of ETAAS is the cold-vapour technique for the determination of mercury (Section 12.2.4). 

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