1. 2000 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry – A time to refresh

   • Ramon M. Barnes

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 3

2. Recent trends and developments in laser ablation-ICP-mass spectrometry

   • D. Günther
   • I. Horn
   • B. Hattendorf

   Special issue paper Pages: 4 - 14

3. Mass spectrometry with plasma sources at atmospheric pressure – state-of-the-art and some developmental trends

   • J. A. C. Broekaert

   Special Issue Paper Pages: 15 - 22

4. Precise and accurate isotope ratio measurements by ICP-MS

   • J. Sabine Becker
   • Hans-Joachim Dietze

   Special Issue Paper Pages: 23 - 30

5. Bulk analysis by IR laser ablation inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry

   • Michel Hemmerlin
   • Dumont Somas
   • J.-M. Mermet

   Special Issue Paper Pages: 31 - 36

6. Optimization of a laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma “time of flight” mass spectrometry system for short transient signal acquisition

   • Davide Bleiner
   • Kathrin Hametner
   • D. Günther

   Special Issue Paper Pages: 37 - 44

7. A possible steady state kinetic model for the atomization and excitation processes during inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry: Application to interference effects of lithium on calcium

   • M. F. Zaranyika
   • Albert T. Chirenje

   Special issue paper Pages: 45 - 51

8. A novel high-temperature (360 °C)/high-pressure (30 MPa) flow system for online sample digestion applied to ICP spectrometry

   • Stephan Haiber
   • H. Berndt

   Special issue paper Pages: 52 - 58

9. A simple co-precipitation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric method for the determination of uranium in seawater

   • Chiu L. Chou
   • John D. Moffatt

   Special issue paper Pages: 59 - 61

10. Speciation of antimony(III) and antimony(V) in cell extracts by anion chromatography/ inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    • N. Ulrich
    • Pninit Shaked
    • Dan Zilberstein

    Special issue paper Pages: 62 - 66

11. A new HG/LT-GC/ICP-MS multi-element speciation technique for real samples in different matrices

    • U. M. Grüter
    • J. Kresimon
    • A. V. Hirner

    Special issue paper Pages: 67 - 72

12. Automated in situ trace element analysis of silicate materials by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    • Zhongxing Chen
    • Dante Canil
    • Henry P. Longerich

    Special Issue Paper Pages: 73 - 78

13. Determination of trace elements in zeolites by laser ablation ICP-MS

    • C. Pickhardt
    • I. B. Brenner
    • H.-J. Dietze

    Special issue paper Pages: 79 - 87

14. Ion chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS) and radiometric techniques for the determination of actinides in aqueous leachate solutions from uranium oxide

    • D. Solatie
    • P. Carbol
    • J. Cobos

    Special Issue Paper Pages: 88 - 94

15. Comparison between the use of direct current glow discharge mass spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry for the analysis of trace elements in nuclear samples

    • L. Aldave de las Heras
    • F. Bocci
    • L. O. Actis-Dato

    Special issue paper Pages: 95 - 102

16. Development of an ICP-IDMS method for accurate routine analyses of toxic heavy metals in polyolefins and comparison with results by TI-IDMS

    • Jürgen Diemer
    • K. G. Heumann

    Special Issue Paper Pages: 103 - 108

17. Isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry in connection with a chromatographic separation for ultra trace determinations of platinum group elements (Pt, Pd, Ru, Ir) in environmental samples

    • M. Müller
    • K. G. Heumann

    Special issue paper Pages: 109 - 115

18. Arsenic metabolism in seaweed-eating sheep from Northern Scotland

    • J. Feldmann
    • Katie John
    • Paramee Pengprecha

    Special issue paper Pages: 116 - 121