Atomic Spectroscopy

摘要

Atomic spectrometric methods make use of flames and furnaces as atom reservoirs for atomic absorption and mainly plasma sources at reduced or ambient pressure as radiation and/or ion sources for emission and elemental mass spectrometry, respectively. Whereas applications deal with almost every area of science and technology, a lot of methodic innovation took place, as reflected in the literature published in the period between November 2005 and October 2007. As in the recent issues of this review series (1-3), a representative part of the papers published in the journals Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Sciences, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Applied Spectroscopy, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Microchimica Acta, Microchemical Journal, and Spectrochimica Acta, Part B is discussed and at the hand of these papers trends of development show up. Of course the number of journals covered as well as the number of citations does not allow a complete overview of the area but nevertheless allow it to draw up the great lines of development in atomic spectrometry. Within the period covered a number of important scientific meetings such as the Winter Conferences on Plasma Spectrochemistry in the U.S.A. (January 8-14, 2006, Tucson, AZ), Europe (February 18-23, 2007, Taormina, Italy), and Asia (November 26-December 2, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand), the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale (September 4-9, 2005, Antwerp, Belgium) (4) or the International Congress on Analytical Sciences (June 20-30, 2006, Moscow, Russia) (5) took place or the proceedings were published. Further, special issues of the above-mentioned journals occurred, where actual topics like new plasma discharges for atomic spectrometry (6) or the use of vapor generation for analytical atomic spectrometry (7) was treated. Also reviews dealing with topics like atmospheric plasma discharges for atomic spectrometry, in which both the principles as well as a number of prominent applications were discussed (8), have been published.