Sample handling comminution

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Having as necessary, dried, homogenized or comminuted the samples, they must now be digested in a suitable reagent to extract elements in a suitable form for chemical analysis. In many organizations we have reached the point where the analyses pass from the hands of the person who took the sample to those of the analytical chemist. In the author s experience, however, it must be emphasized that to ensure best-quality results the whole procedure from, for example, statistically sampling a sediment to the final chemical analysis, should be handled by the same person. 

Except when sampling directly from the container for labile parameters, preparation methods generally involve between one and four comminution processes and three or four handling processes (e.g. sub-sampling, sieving), each of which has associated problems with respect to protecting the integrity of the sample. Table 3.3 identifies some common preparation processes and problems encountered in the laboratory. 

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