Selenium [Biomonitoring Methods, 1988]

Published in the series Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Vol. 2 (1988) The article contains sections titled: General principles Equipment, chemicals and solutions Equipment Chemicals Solutions Calibration standards Specimen collection and sample preparation Manual digestion Digestion in automatic wet mineralization apparatus Operational parameters for atomic absorption spectrometry Analytical determination Manual digestion Digestion in automatic wet mineralization apparatus Calibration Calculation of the analytical result Standardization and quality control Reliability of the method Precision (manual procedure) Accuracy (manual procedure) Detection limit Sources of error Discussion of the method Keywords: determination in blood; determination in plasma; determination in urine; hydride atomic absorption spectrometry; hydride AAS; analysis in biological materials; occupational monitoring; analytical method; biomarker; metabolites