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. 1981 Jan;37:183–200. doi: 10.1289/ehp.8137183

Determination of selenium in the environment and in biological material.

E M Bem
PMCID: PMC1568638  PMID: 7007035

Abstract

This paper reviews the following problems, sampling, decomposition procedures and most important analytical methods used for selenium determination, e.g., neutron activation analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry, gas-liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, and x-ray fluorescence. This review covers the literature mainly from 1975 to 1977.

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