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Plant Analysis Procedures
Edited by Erwin J.M Temminghoff and Victor J.G. Houba
Springer
2004
Hardcover X + 179 pp ISBN 1402027699
£54.00
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This manual is intended for the practising chemist who has to do a job in analysing plant material. Therefore, the
manual contains detailed procedures without any comment. The procedures described are for determination of the
inorganic components that most frequently occur in plants. Most procedures are designed to give a total content
value of the element under consideration, regardless of the chemical structure in which it occurs in the plant.
The manual is designed with all digestion procedures described in one chapter, all extraction procedures in the second
chapter and all determination procedures in a third. To obtain the required result a suitable digestion method is chosen
and then used in combination with the required determination technique that is indicated within each individual
determination procedure.
For determination of the elements, mainly spectrometric techniques are used. Depending on the kind of element
and the expected concentration level, the following methods may be applied:
flame atomic emission spectrometry (flame AES)
flame atomic absorption spectrometry (flame AAS)
inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICPOES)
electrothermal atomisation (graphite furnace)
atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAAS)
inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS)
spectrophotometry and segmented flow analysis (SFA).
In addition, potentiometry (ion selective electrodes (ISE)) and coulometry are also introduced where required.
In many cases, more than one method is described for determination of a specific component. Such alternative
methods may be used to provide a reference, or as an alternative in case of instrumental or analytical problems.
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