Essential Environmental Applications for Trace Elemental Analysis

To find out about the very latest in environmental analysis applications and AA, ICP-OES or ICP-MS technologies, simply download the Thermo Scientific Environmental Analysis Packs. There are three key application notes ready to download for each technique which will help to reduce your method development time when analysing trace elements in environmental samples.

AA
The Thermo Scientific AA information pack for environmental analysis has been compiled to provide you with relevant information about our graphic furnace atomic absorption solutions for low level environmental analysis and includes the three application notes below:

Lead in Natural Waters using EPA Method 200.9 This application note details full method development and spectrometer optimisation. A range of development wizards and enhanced QC test functionality is used to ensure the Method requirements are achieved.

Arsenic in Natural Waters using EPA Method 200.9 Discover how development tools such as a Graphite Furnace Television and the automatic Ash Atomizer Wizard can be used to enable fast and reliable optimisation of instrument parameters.

Selenium in Natural Waters using EPA Method 200.9 Find out how flexible calibration functions and the automatic standard addition functionality of the furnace auto-sampler enable implementation and compliance with the Method.

ICP-OES
The environmental pack for ICP-OES contains the following applications data for compliant ICP environmental analysis and is available to download at: www.thermoscientific.com/environmental icp-oes

Analysis of Toxic Elements in Drinking and Bottled Waters Discover the simplest method of toxic element analysis using an analysis-ready Environmental Method Template. Find out how both novice and experienced users can quickly and easily generate accurate and precise results.

Determination of Trace Elements in Waters using US EPA Method 200.7 This application note demonstrates how to easily comply with the QC and Validation requirements of the EPA Method 200.7 for a wide range of water sample types.

The Analysis of Waters and Soil Digests using US EPA SW-846 Method 6010 Find out how to effectively analyse challenging environmental samples by the US EPA method 6010. The method is suitable for the determination of 31 elements in a range of matrices.

ICP-MS
Download a compendium of the following ICP-MS environmental application guides from www.thermoscientific.com/environmental-icp-ms

US EPA Method 200.8 using ICP-MS
Find out how to comply with the US EPA Method 200.8 when analysing drinking water, natural water and waste water. This application note provides data which demonstrates compliance with all of the specified Method requirements.

The Determination of Trivalent and Hexavalent Chromium using HPLC-ICP-MS
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Union have specified maximum
admissible concentrations of 0.1 and 0.05 mg/L for total chromium under their respective
drinking water directives.

Rapid, Simple, Interference-free Analysis of Environmental Samples This application note describes how a single-gas collision cell mode for multi-element environmental analysis simultaneously eliminates all polyatomic interferences of concern in the analysis of environmental samples.