Trace Elemental Analysis of Metals. Methods and Techniques
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Author(s): T. R. Dulski
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
ISBN: 0 8247 1985 9
Format: hardback
581pp
Price: $195.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This book provides a detailed review of information on minor, trace and ultratrace methods and techniques for metals for metal analysts who need to verify that stringent trace level compositional specificatins have been met. The book begins by putting the subject area within the context of both materials development and analytic chemistry. The first three chapters cover the essential prerequisites and refinement tools that are directly applicable to measurement approaches. Each of the following five chapters deals with a specific measurement technique: UV/visible molecular absorption spectroscopy; atomic absorption spectroscopy; atomic emission spectroscopy; mass spectroscopy;and other miscellaneous measurement techniques. The book goes on to describe inclusions and phases and how chemical laboratories can be used to provide information to supplement metallographic analysis, while preserving the accuracy of their own work. The last chapter summarises the quality features that are particular to working at low analyte concentrations.