An overview of the evolution of Soxhlet extraction of solid materials and its comparison with
the performance of other conventional and new extraction techniques is presented. First, a …

The speed and efficiency of instrumentation for chemical analysis has improved dramatically
over the past twenty years. Until recently, however, methods of sample preparation had not …

Introduction Open or closed digestion systems? Closed microwave digestion techniques
Open digestion techniques On-line digestion techniques Chemometrics Universal digestion …

This new, self-contained volume covers in a critical, exhaustive, and in-depth manner the
progress in AAS determinations of 55 chemical elements in 42 individual chapters, with an …

Nobody could imagine at the end of the last century the wonderful success that green
analytical chemistry (GAC) would achieve. In fact, preliminary proposals in this field spoke …

Trace element analysis has a key role to play in quality control of food and diet. This timely
book introduces the subject in a practical way-from sampling and the techniques available …

Three different methods: hydrodistillation (HD), focused microwave-assisted hydrodistillation
(FMAHD) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) have been applied, for the first time …

This review presents the latest advances of the mechanisation in sample preparation using
microwave oven. The fundamental principles of microwaves field interaction with matter are …

Digestion is the most demanding step in sample preparation, and its aim is to break the
sample into more simple constituents with the aid of time, heat and reagents using different …

This review covers literature published during the two-year period since the last review in
the series (1). The major emphasis is on analytical atomic absorption and fluorescence …