Developments in Methods of Sample Injection and Atomization in Atomic Spectrometry

Abstract
Although conventional flame emission and atomic absorption continue to serve as reliable and convenient methods of analysis at low concentrations, considerable research efforts, notably the development of non-flame atomizers, have extended atomic spectrometry into the range of trace and ultratrace analysis. Relatively few other analytical techniques are useful at concentration levels of 1 ppb or less, and none is as inexpensive, rapid, and readily available to most laboratories as atomic spectrometry.