TY - JOUR
AB - 2006, 64, 495–497 Analytical atomic intimately related topics in a single spectroscopy with flames chapter especially in view of the fact that and plasma second, Chapter 9 consists of a mere four pages completely revised only. Sample preparation often takes and extended edition considerably longer than the actual ana- lytical determination itself, especially if by J.A.C. Broekaert time-consuming methods such as acid Wiley-VCH Weinheim, Germany, 2005. digestion are required. pp xii + 414. ISBN-10: 3-527- 31282-X, Chapters 4–8 give accounts of the ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31282-5, Price: EUR 99.00 different versions of atomic spectros- copy—atomic absorption, atomic emis- Since the first edition of this book was sion, plasma MS, atomic fluorescence only published in 2002, this is clearly an and laser-enhanced ionisation spectrom- important and fast developing topic. etry. Each chapter deals with the princi- Atomic absorption and emission spec- ples of the technique, the equipment and troscopy were perhaps the earliest applications. The number of pages de- instrumental methods to be applied to voted to each variant is a rough guide to analytical chemistry although the equip- their current importance—AAS 46 pages, ment changed little for many years. It was AES 72 pages, ICP-MS 39 pages, AFS 5 the upsurge 
TI - Book Reviews
JF - Chromatographia
DO - 10.1365/s10337-006-0075-8
DA - 2006-09-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/book-reviews-30Z5p9X20y
SP - 495
EP - 497
VL - 64
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -