In spite of being a mature science, elemental analysis continues to play a vital role in product manufacturing and quality characterization in many sectors of all industries. Research divisions in both industry and academia continue devising new ways of lowering the elemental detection limits so that even the minutest amounts of elements in products could be determined in as accurate and precise a fashion as possible.
The objective of this book is to acquaint the readers with the latest advances in the field of elemental analysis and to focus on what avenues of future research to explore in this area. The subjects included are various elemental analysis techniques such as atomic absorption spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma emission and mass spectrometry, isotope dilution mass spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence, ion chromatography, gas chromatography- atomic emission detection, other hyphenated techniques, hetero-atom microanalysis, sample preparation, reference materials, and other subjects related to matrices such as petroleum products, lubricating oils and additives, crude oils, used oils, catalysts, etc.