JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY DECEMBER 1993 VOL. 8 65N Future Issues will include- Spectral Line Selection for Determina- tion of Zirconium Cerium Thorium and Titanium by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrome- try in Zirconia-based Ceramic Materi- als-Sergio R. Marin Silvia G. Cor- nejo Lorna Arriagada Determination of Arsenic Species in Fish by Directly Coupled High- performance Liquid Chromatogra- phy-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry-Simon Branch Les Ebdon Peter O’Neill Use of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for the Determina- tion of Ultra-trace Elements in Human Serum-Hans Vanhoe Jacques Ver- sieck Richard Dams Thermal Stabilization of Antimony in Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry-Kari Dahl Ivar Mar- tinsen Bernard Radziuk Brit Salbu Yngvar Thomassen Silicon Measurement in Bone and Other Tissues by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry- Zhuoer Huang High-performance Flow Electrother- mal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry for On-line Trace Element Preconcen- tration-Matrix Separation and Trace Element Determination Applied to an Aluminium Solution-Harald Berndt G.Schaldach Comparison Between Infrared and Ultraviolet Laser Ablation at Atmo- spheric Pressure-Implications for Solid Sampling Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry-C. Geertsen A. Briand F. Chartier J.-L. Lacour Patrick Mauchien Jean-Michel Mer- met Sten Sjostrom Matrix Effects of Potassium Chloride and Phosphoric Acid in Argon Induc- tively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emis- sion Spectrometry-Bojan Budic Vida Hudnik Development of a Simple Method for the Determination of Toluene Extrac- table Organotin by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and its Application to Effluent Analysis- K.Clive Thompson Shayessteh Dad- farnia Gavin Hoult Analysis of Electrical Arc Furnace Flue Dusts by Atomic Emission Spec- trometry-Aurora G. Coedo M. T. Dorado Isabel G. Cob0 Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry in Occupational and En- vironmental Health Practice-a Dec- ade of Progress and Establishment. A Review-D. L. Tsalev Determination of Cadmium and Zinc Isotope Ratios in Sheep’s Blood and Organ Tissue by Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry-D. Con- rad Gregoire Julian Lee Matrix Separation by Chelation to Prepare Biological Materials for Isoto- pic Zinc Analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrome- try-Steven F.Durrant Antoaneta Krushevska Dulasiri Amarasiriwar- dena Mark D. Argentine Sabine Ro- mon-Guesnier Ramon M. Barnes Effects of Low Acetic Acid Concentra- tions in Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry- Sanda Roncevic Marija Siroki Determination of Chromium in Bio- logical Fluids by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Us- ing Wall Platform and Probe Atomi- zation From Different Graphite Surfa- ces-E. Alvarez-Cabal Cimadevilla Katarzyna Wrobel J. Gayon Mar- chante A. Sanz-Medel Isotope Dilution Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry as Applied to the Analysis of Lead in Waste Oils -Christopher M. Barshick David H. Smith Jeffrey W. Wade Charles K.BayneRamon M. 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