[Direct determination of Pb, Zn and Cd in environmental and biological samples by FAAS]

This paper describes interference and background correction problem of direct determination of Pb, Zn and Cd in soil, sediment, plants, halobios and sea water by FAAS. With the improvement of limit of detection(L.O.D) of instrument, Pb, Zn and Cd in same environmental and biological samples can be analyzed directly by FAAS, but it is worth taking attention that there are quantities of elements which lead to background interference in air-ethyne flame, such as Al, Na, K Ca, Mg and Fe. Compare with no background correction, limit of detection using D2 lamp background correction is improved by 1.05-4.5 times, the recoveries and the relative standard deviation(R.S.D) are better, standard samples were also analyzed with satisfactory results.