High-resolution continuum source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry: is it as good as it sounds? A critical review.
The recent arrival of high-resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry represents a potential revolution in this field, in particular for direct analysis of complex samples. This review tries to illustrate the main advantages of this technology, paying particular attention to the development of direct solid sampling methods. Three solid sampling applications will be discussed, each one of them highlighting one of the main advantages of this technique. The review also intends to clarify some misconceptions on the true potential of the instrumentation that is currently commercially available, such as its performance for multielemental analysis.
Resano
Martín
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Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Saragossa, Spain. mresano@unizar.es
García-Ruiz
Esperanza
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