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Despite the development of innovative new analytical techniques for
biological trace element research, today's trace element
investigators face formidable obstacles to obtaining reliable data.
This complete reference identifies and assesses the challenges the
analyst encounters at each stage of an analysis, and discusses the
effects of various techniques on the sample.
Three internationally recognized scientists and authors consider
the effects of the numerous collection, storage, and sample
preparatory techniques used in sample analysis. Proper analytical
quality control, including such critical factors as sampling and
sample preparation, specimen preservation and storage, and ashing,
is examined. The book also looks at sample preparation methods
unique to various instruments and speciation chemistry issues, and
examines the link between chemical analysis and specimen banking. A
previously unrecognized source of error, presampling factors, is
also discussed.
The purpose of this volume is to emphasize the fact that biological
trace element research is a multidisciplinary science which
requires a prudent combination of biological insight and analytical
awareness. The text frequently stresses that accurate measurements
on biologically and analytically "valid" samples hold the key for
success in future investigations. It reminds the analytical
scientists and the life sciences researchers that their perceptions
should extend beyond conventional limits - namely, the former as
generators of data and the latter as interpreters of those
findings. This book enables the reader to understand the
intricacies of elemental composition studies in biological systems,
and also provides a valuable source of information to biologists,
biochemists, physicians, nutritionists and related scientific
workers who intend to draw meaningful conclusions from the
analytical findings.
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