ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CONTENTS 1.1 Forensic Science Investigations 1.2 Forensic Science Analysis 2 1.3 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry 7 1.4 The Aims of This Investigation 8 2 INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY 10 2 .l Introduction 2.2 The Inductively Coupled Plasma 2.3 Instrumentation Used in This Study 2.3.1 Radio Frequency Generator 2.3....

Article history: Received 16 November 2012 Received in revised form 16 February 2013 Accepted 19 February 2013 Available online 5 March 2013

concentrations of major nutritional and trace elements (ca, p, mg, na, k, fe, zn, cu, mn, se,co, cr, ni, sr, ba) and toxic heavy metals (cd, pb) were analyzed in the meat of limousin, red angus andsalers bulls. elements were determined using inductively coupled plasma emission atomic spectrometry. theconducted research showed that the meat of compared breeds differed in the concentrations of cu...