Atomic / Ezine
Sounding out heavy metals: Ultrasonic AAS booster
Date: May 15, 2012
Author: David Bradley
Ultrasonic water dissolution at room temperature facilitates a rapid and simple analytical approach to the determination of iron, manganese and zinc with flow injection flame atomic absorption spectrometry.
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Strip and test: Mercury revealed
Date: May 1, 2012
Author: David Bradley
A strip test for mercury ions in water samples offers results comparable with atomic absorption spectroscopy measurements, according to a team from Ningbo University, China.
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Journal Highlight: Intercomparison of PIXE and ICP-AES analyses of aeolian dust from Owens (Dry) Lake, California
Date: Apr 2, 2012
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Elemental data for aeolian dust from Owens (Dry) Lake, California, has been obtained by particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and ICP-AES to give a wider ragne of detected elements.
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Ablation on the horizon: LAMIS lands
Date: Mar 15, 2012
Author: David Bradley
US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology that might one day be used to carry out isotopic analysis of industrial and medical samples and perhaps even be used in a future planetary lander to test extraterrestrial rocks.
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Journal Highlight: An intercomparison study of analytical methods for the determination of magnesium in low alloy steel
Date: Mar 5, 2012
Author: spectroscopyNOW
In an intercomparison study, the trace magnesium contents of three low alloy steel materials were analyzed by five different analytical techniques: spark-OES, ICP-OES, ICP-TOFMS, ICP-QMS and glow discharge mass spectrometry.
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Graphene snapped: Laser spectroscopy freezes picosecond action
Date: Feb 15, 2012
Author: David Bradley
When graphene is stimulated optically it produces a photocurrent on a time scale of mere picoseconds. A German research team has now used the pump-probe method of time-resolved laser spectroscopy to take a snapshot of this process as it happens.
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Biodiesel: Algae burn for you
Date: Jan 15, 2012
Author: David Bradley
Atomic absorption spectroscopy is used in a study published in Angewandte Chemie that demonstrates how biodiesel might be produced from microalgae.
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Journal Highlight: Determination of cadmium and lead in human teeth samples using dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction and GFAAS
Date: Jan 9, 2012
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A new method for the determination of cadmium and lead in human teeth was developed based on dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction preconcentration and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry determination, using O,O-diethyldithiophosphate as a chelating agent.
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Journal Highlight: Determination of trace nickel in hydrogenated cottonseed oil by ETAAS after microwave-assisted digestion
Date: Jan 9, 2012
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A combination of microwave digestion and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry is proposed for the first time for the determination of trace nickel in hydrogenated cottonseed oil.
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Gold nanorods: Non-toxic coating aids anticancer agents
Date: Dec 15, 2011
Author: David Bradley
Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) has been used in a study of coated gold nanorods that have potential as anticancer agents.
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