TABLE OF CONTENTS [1] Thomas Prohaska [2] , Gunda K llensperger [3] , Stephan Hann [4] , Gerhard Stingeder [5] , Walter Fitz [6] and Walter Wenzel [7]
Environmental and geochemical sciences were the first main fields of application of ICP-MS in the early 80's. (funding of the US research by the Environmental Protection Agency and UK funding by the British Geological Survey)1
Now, more than 20 years after the first publication on ICP-MS, environmental science represents still 1/3 of the studies as published in scientific journals and shows an increasing trend together with biomedical applications. The recent 'Atomic Spectrometry Update: Environmental Analysis'...
