Practical Guide to ICP-MS

Hard Cover  336 pages, Illustrated  ISBN 0824753194      £58.00

The easy-to-read guide the trace element community has been waiting for, this reference acquaints novices with the fundamental principles, analytical advantages, practical capabilities, and overall benefits of ICP-MS€presenting the most common application areas of ICP-MS such as the environmental, semiconductor, geochemical, clinical, nuclear, food, metallurgical, and petrochemical industries.

• Presents key concepts and guidelines in a practical, reader-friendly format that is superb for researchers and senior management with limited knowledge of the technique.
• Written by a field insider with more than 20 years of experience in the development and application of atomic spectroscopy instrumentation, the Practical Guide to ICP-MS
• describes the fundamental principles of the technique in a way that is easy to understand
• discusses the major sample preparation, contamination, and routine maintenance issues associated with the technique
• compares ICP-MS to other trace element techniques in terms of detection capability, dynamic range, interferences, accuracy, precision, sample throughput, speed of analysis, operator skill level, and running costs
• enables novices to weigh the benefits of ICP-MS against more familiar atomic spectroscopy instrumentation methods
• highlights ways in which ICP-MS is applied in the real-world
• presents the most important selection criteria when evaluating commercial ICP-MS equipment