Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1241668 Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 2017 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

Two multielemental analytical techniques, X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) were used for the analysis of the elemental composition of sediment samples from a marsh and standard reference materials. The sediment samples were pretreated with different methods which are widely used in practice. A comparison was made not only between the concentrations obtained by the different methods, but also between the statistical conclusions derived from the processing of the experimental results. Good agreement was found for some elements, e.g. Mn, Zn and Sr, while the concentrations and the statistical conclusions were shown to depend on the analytical method used in the case of other elements, e.g. Fe and Zr.

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