Journal of Analytical Atomic Sped romet ry 1llllll! I Ill llllli!lll1llll CONTENTS ~ NEWS PAGES Editorial Janice M. Gordon Editorial Barry Sharp Judith Egan-Shuttler Editorial Doug Miles History of ARMS John Dawson John Price Atomic Spectrometry Viewpoint Scott Tanner European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Freddy Adams Diary of Conferences and Courses Future Issues 1N 2N 6N 7N 9N 12N 13N 14N PAPERS Decrease of Solvent Water Loading in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry by Using a Membrane Separator Hiroaki Tao Akira Miyazaki Utilization of Metallic Platforms in Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry lsam Marawi Lisa K. Olson Jiansheng Wang Joseph A. Caruso Correction of Mass Bias Drift in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Zinc Isotope Ratios Using Gallium as an Isotope Ratio Internal Standard Raimund Roehl John Gomez Leslie R.Wood house Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Precambrian Sediments at lsua by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Tomonori Uchino Mitsuru Ebihara Determination of Arsenic in Environmental and Biological Samples by Flow Injection Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Meng-Fen H w g Shiuh-Jen Jiang Chorng-Jev Hwang Electrothermal Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Signal for Gold in Organic Matrices Shoji Imai Kyoichi Okuhara Toshiyuki Tanaka Yasuhisa Hayashi Kengo Saito Physical Behaviour of Nickel and Copper Modifiers Used in the Determination of Selenium by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Tariq M.Mahrnood Huancheng Qiao Kenneth W. Jackson Application of Palladium- and Rhodium-plating of the Graphite Furnace in Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Ewa Bulska Wojciech Jedral Automatic Preparation of Milk Dessert Slurries for the Determination of Trace Amounts of Aluminium by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Marco A. 2. Arruda Mercedes Gallego Miguel Valcarcel Flashlamp Continuum AAS Time Resolved Spectra Helmut Becker-Ross Stefan Florek Reinhard Tischendorf Gisela R. Schmecher CUMULATIVE AUTHOR INDEX INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS COPYRIGHT LICENCE FORM SUBMISSION ON DISK REFEREEING PROCEDURE AND POLICY 1 7 15 25 31 37 43 49 55 61 65 67 74 76 -L 78 AT 0 M I C S P ECT R 0 M E T R Y U P D AT ES References FACSS Announcement and Call for Papers 1R 1 0267 -9477 C 1995 I 1 .1 - 2 Typeset printed and bound by The Charlesworth Group Huddersfield England 01484 517077Journal of Analytical Atomic Sped romet ry 1llllll! I Ill llllli!lll1llll CONTENTS ~ NEWS PAGES Editorial Janice M. Gordon Editorial Barry Sharp Judith Egan-Shuttler Editorial Doug Miles History of ARMS John Dawson John Price Atomic Spectrometry Viewpoint Scott Tanner European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Freddy Adams Diary of Conferences and Courses Future Issues 1N 2N 6N 7N 9N 12N 13N 14N PAPERS Decrease of Solvent Water Loading in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry by Using a Membrane Separator Hiroaki Tao Akira Miyazaki Utilization of Metallic Platforms in Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry lsam Marawi Lisa K.Olson Jiansheng Wang Joseph A. Caruso Correction of Mass Bias Drift in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Zinc Isotope Ratios Using Gallium as an Isotope Ratio Internal Standard Raimund Roehl John Gomez Leslie R. Wood house Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Precambrian Sediments at lsua by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Tomonori Uchino Mitsuru Ebihara Determination of Arsenic in Environmental and Biological Samples by Flow Injection Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Meng-Fen H w g Shiuh-Jen Jiang Chorng-Jev Hwang Electrothermal Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Signal for Gold in Organic Matrices Shoji Imai Kyoichi Okuhara Toshiyuki Tanaka Yasuhisa Hayashi Kengo Saito Physical Behaviour of Nickel and Copper Modifiers Used in the Determination of Selenium by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Tariq M.Mahrnood Huancheng Qiao Kenneth W. Jackson Application of Palladium- and Rhodium-plating of the Graphite Furnace in Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Ewa Bulska Wojciech Jedral Automatic Preparation of Milk Dessert Slurries for the Determination of Trace Amounts of Aluminium by Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Marco A. 2. Arruda Mercedes Gallego Miguel Valcarcel Flashlamp Continuum AAS Time Resolved Spectra Helmut Becker-Ross Stefan Florek Reinhard Tischendorf Gisela R. Schmecher CUMULATIVE AUTHOR INDEX INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS COPYRIGHT LICENCE FORM SUBMISSION ON DISK REFEREEING PROCEDURE AND POLICY 1 7 15 25 31 37 43 49 55 61 65 67 74 76 -L 78 AT 0 M I C S P ECT R 0 M E T R Y U P D AT ES References FACSS Announcement and Call for Papers 1R 1 0267 -9477 C 1995 I 1 . 1 - 2 Typeset printed and bound by The Charlesworth Group Huddersfield England 01484 517077