1. Editorial

   • W. Fresenius
   • H. Malissa Snr.

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1027 - 1027

2. Gas-chromatographic determination of trace amounts of vinyl chloride and dichloroethenes in water after purge-and-trap preconcentration and conversion into their dibrominated derivatives

   • Jürgen Wittsiepe
   • Dirk Wallschläger
   • Ewald Jackwerth

   Original Paper Pages: 1028 - 1034

3. Electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry for the analysis of solid samples: contribution to instrumentation and methodology

   • P. Verrept
   • R. Dams
   • U. Kurfürst

   Original Paper Pages: 1035 - 1041

4. Analysis of silicon carbide powder by ETV-ICP-AES

   • Gyula Záray
   • Franz Leis
   • Günther Tölg

   Original Paper Pages: 1042 - 1046

5. Direct solid sample analysis using pressure regulated electrothermal atomization with atomic absorption spectrometry

   • James A. Holcombe
   • Pingxin Wang

   Original Paper Pages: 1047 - 1053

6. Pre-ashing of biological samples — a sample preparation technique for solid sampling ZAAS

   • Ikuo Atsuya
   • Hirotsugu Minami
   • Qiangbin Zhang

   Original Paper Pages: 1054 - 1057

7. Determination of trace elements in plant materials by slurry sampling graphite furnace AAS — some analytical problems

   • Ryszard Dobrowolski
   • Jerzy Mierzwa

   Original Paper Pages: 1058 - 1061

8. Distribution of Pb and Cd in the liver of the mallard — direct determination by means of solid sampling ZAAS

   • Ernst Lücker
   • Claudia Gerbig
   • Wilhelm Kreuzer

   Original Paper Pages: 1062 - 1067

9. Distribution of Pb and Cd in equine liver — direct determination by means of solid sampling ZAAS

   • Ernst Lücker
   • Jörg Meuthen
   • Wilhelm Kreuzer

   Original Paper Pages: 1068 - 1071

10. Solid sampling ZAAS determination of endogenous Pb contamination in muscle tissue caused by calcification

    • Ernst Lücker
    • Sigrid Thorius-Ehrler

    Original Paper Pages: 1072 - 1076