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INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY: PROMINENT LINES
Citation:
Winge, R., V. Peterson, AND V. Fassel. INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY: PROMINENT LINES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/4-79/017.
Description:
Nearly every phase of environmental protection depends on a capability to identify and measure specific pollutants in the environment. As part of the research on the occurrence, movement, transformation, impact, and control of environmental contaminants, new techniques for identifying and measuring chemical constituents of water and soil have been developed. The use of inductively coupled plasma (ICP)-atomic emission spectroscopy is expected to increase rapidly as analytical chemists confront new problems in elemental characterization. This report records the prominent lines of the ICP emission spectra of some 70 elements as the first step in the development of a spectral atlas that would serve as a useful tool in the selection of analytical lines for this spectroscopic technique.