Evaluation of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry as an elemental detector for supercritical fluid

W L Shen1, N P Vela, B S Sheppard

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172.

Analytical Chemistry
|July 15, 1991
PubMed

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