The development and current status of flow injection techniques in inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry is reviewed. Topics such as direct sample introduction, dilution, calibration and on-line sample pre-treatment are used to illustrate the versatility of the combined experiment. The analytical potential of flow injection techniques in inductively coupled mass spectrometry i...

Perfluorinated compounds ~PFCs!, gases which have large global warming potentials, are widely used in plasma processing for etching and chamber cleaning. Due to underutilization of the feedstock gases or by-product generation, the effluents from plasma tools using these gases typically have large mole fractions of PFCs. The use of plasma burn-boxes located downstream of the plasma chamber has b...

The concentrations of sixteen elements and organic carbon were determined in 78 marine sediment samples collected from the Iranian coastal waters of the Persian Gulf. Nine transects perpendicular to the coastline were sampled. Sixteen elements, including As, Ba, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn (trace metals) and Ca, Fe, Mg, Na, P, S, Si (major metals), were determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma M...

Introduction: This study was carried out to determine elements (Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Ba, B, Al, Si, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Ag and P) in the Suaeda vermiculata (S. vermiculata) and Suaeda aegyptiaca (S. aegyptiaca) in three different regions of Southern Iran using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) after microwave-assisted acid digestion. Materials and ...